Venezuela’s Instituto Postal Telegráfico (IPOSTEL) is the state postal operator responsible for national mail, parcels and telegraph-related services. Created as an autonomous institute in 1978, it unified the country’s historically fragmented postal system and today acts both as regulator and main provider of postal services. IPOSTEL manages hundreds of post offices and works with private operators, offering domestic deliveries, some international routes, philately and logistics solutions across Venezuelan cities and rural communities.

Poste Vaticane is the official postal and philatelic service of Vatican City, created in 1929 after the Lateran Treaty established the independent city-state. Building on earlier papal mail services and Vatican stamps first issued in 1852, it now operates several post offices inside and around St Peter’s Basilica and the Vatican Museums, handling millions of letters and postcards annually for residents, pilgrims, tourists and collectors worldwide.