Consultative Committee for Postal Studies
The
Consultative Committee for Postal Studies was created at the 9th UPU Congress
in Ottawa, Canada, 1957. The 11th Congress in Tokyo, Japan, 1969, changed its
name to Consultative Council for Postal Studies. Since 1994 (Seoul, Republic of
Korea) it is known as the Postal Operations Council.
The Committee was the result of the need for a
technical commission to discuss issues concerning the progress and improvement
of the postal service. The active part of CCPS was its Management Council. CCPS
was supposed to meet at dates fixed by the UPU Congress and function like a
Congress Committee. It is reported that CCPS did not play an effective part
during Congresses. It did meet frequently however, as it did in Moscow in 1968.
To avoid confusion between the CCPS as a permanent
body and as a Congress Committee, the 1969 Tokyo Congress abolished CCPS and
replaced the Management Council by a Consultative Council for Postal Studies
(also CCPS). Now known as the Postal Operations Council, it deals mainly with
operational, economic and organizational issues.
Link
Information on the Postal Operations
Council on the UPU website.
Stamp catalogue -
meetings
Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics 30 June 1968
Stamp catalogue -
30th anniversary - 1987
Tunisia 9 October 1987