Faroe Post tracking packages and shipments

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Faroe Post - Tracking number format

• A# *** *** *** FO
• C# *** *** *** FO
• E# *** *** *** FO
• L# *** *** *** FO
• R# *** *** *** FO
• S# *** *** *** FO
• V# *** *** *** FO

# - letter; * - digit; ! - letter or digit

Faroe Post - information about carrier

Posta is the postal service of the Faroe Islands and was established on 1 April 1976 under the Home Guideline of the Faroe Islands. On 16 December 2005, it became a public joint-stock business under the name P/F Postverk Føroya (retroactive from 1 January 2005).

About 290 clerks work for Posta. There are 34 post offices, and 90 postal providers supporting the country's 17,000 families and 48,000 occupants.

Prior to regular boat service was developed between the islands, a special transport system was needed to enable individuals from different islands to exchange messages. This system was called Skjúts. It included a Skjútsskaffari, or representative, being selected in every town with the responsibility of arranging a team to transport people, letters or parcels from one village to another.

The Skjúts system was really introduced in around the mid-1860s, with the first Skjúts Act coming into force in 1865. Skjúts charges were set by the Løgting, the Faroese Representative Council, for 5 years at a time. There were three kinds of Skjúts:

• Official
• Clerical
• and Private

The charges for Skjúts differed, with authorities being the least expensive and Private the most pricey. All healthy males in between 15 and 50 years of age were liable for Skjúts, i.e. they could not decline without incurring a fine.

Peter S. Johannesen, who was among the very first post carriers, informs of a letter shipment from the days of Skjúts. The letter, which needed to go from Tórshavn to Hvalba on Suðuroy, was marked K.T. (i.e., Kongelig Tjeneste-- On His Majesty's Service) and bore the recommendation Uopholdelig Befordring (For Immediate Delivery): i.e. it had actually to be dispatched as quickly as the weather condition permitted.

The first Faroese post workplace was opened in Tórshavn on 1 March 1870. The third post workplace on the Faroes was opened in Klaksvík on 1 May 1888.

In 1903, seven post workplaces were opened. Throughout the following twenty-five years, post workplaces were opened in essentially all of the settlements on the Faroes. Many of them were opened in 1918 when fifteen brand-new post workplaces were added.

Until 1 April 1976, the Faroese postal system was under the instructions of Post Danmark (Post and Telegraph System). At that time the Faroese postal system was arranged so that it had a post workplace (Tórshavn Post Office) handled by a postmaster. All the other post workplaces were divided into 2 groups.

After the election for the Løgting in November 1974, the government chose that the postal service in the Faroes should be taken control of by the Faroese Home Rule. In 1975, the Danish government and the Faroese federal government started settlements on the take-over problem. The outcomes of these settlements caused the Faroese federal government taking control of the postal service in the Faroes since 1 April 1976. This new organization got the name Postverk Føroya (Post of the Faroes). A ram's horn was chosen as the institution's logo design.

As a natural repercussion of the take-over, two brand-new departments were developed within the Faroese postal system:

• The Postage Stamp Department
• The Post Office Giro

Work was being done on reorganizing the Faroese postal system, with the intent being for Postverk Føroya, which was a public institution, to be rearranged into a type of joint-stock enterprise. The postal system, however, continued to be a public company.

Services:

• Logistical services
• Letters and postal services
• Financial services (Posta Giro (is a service of giving consumers, organisations and organizations an account in Suðuroyar Sparikassi); Online banking; Deposits