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== Electronic telecommunication ==
In some countries, telegraph and later telephones came under the same government department as the postal system. Similarly there was an International Telegraph Bureau, based in Bern, akin to the UPU.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article19074506 |title=THE CABLE QUESTION. |newspaper=[[The Brisbane Courier]] |date=15 February 1900 |access-date=16 April 2011 |page=5 |publisher=National Library of Australia |archive-date=9 October 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241009055126/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/19074506 |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[International Telecommunication Union]] currently facilitates international electronic communication.

In order to integrate postal services and the Internet, the UPU sponsors [[.post]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.upu.int/en/activities/post/about-post.html |title=About .post |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=Universal Postal Union |access-date=3 October 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130710024317/http://www.upu.int/en/activities/post/about-post.html |archive-date=10 July 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/post.html |title=Delegation Record for .POST |publisher=Iana.org |access-date=9 October 2024 |archive-date=7 October 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241007120826/https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/post.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Developing their own standards, the UPU expects to unveil a whole new range of international digital postal services, including ''e-post''. <!-- the fact that e-post came after e-mail is duly expressed by its very name --> They have appointed a body, the ''.post group (DPG)'', to oversee the development of that platform.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.upu.int/uploads/tx_sbdownloader/nonBindingCallForTendersEn.pdf |title=Expression of Interest |author=Gustavo Damy |date=19 September 2014 |website=Universal Postal Union |access-date=3 October 2014}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=Thryduulf |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>