The government is seeking to reactivate postal services in the country through agreements and commercial alliances. One of them was signed between Servicios Postales del Ecuador and SkyPostal, a leading international e-commerce package shipping and delivery company that has been operating in the United States for 40 years.

This was announced this Wednesday, March 1, by the Public Postal Services Company of Ecuador, which reported that SkyPostal works with several authorized operators of the Universal Postal Union and is an ally of the most recognized e-commerce stores in the United States, Asia Pacific, Europe, among others .

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“Now citizens can shop abroad online and use the logistics channel SkyPostal – SPE EP to receive their purchases safely and quickly, in the comfort of their home in Ecuador,” the state-owned company reported.

Meanwhile, at the beginning of February, the state-owned company signed another contract with MailAmericas, so that the international company with two decades of experience in handling across the border eCommerce is coming to Ecuador.

The international company has clients such as Wish, AliXpress, Tiendamania, Mercado Libre, among others; and according to Servicios Postales del Ecuador, MailAmericas plays a strategic role in encouraging international companies to take full advantage of domestic couriers and post offices for small businesses and e-commerce giants, delivering more than three million international packages per month across Latin America.

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The public company Servicios Postales del Ecuador SPE EP was established by Executive Decree no. 1244, issued on February 23, 2020, but started operating in December 2021 after the liquidation of Servicios Correos del Ecuador (CDE EP).

According to the Government, at that time the liquidation of Correos del Ecuador was a consequence of its insolvency, the fact that it did not have a real and audited balance sheet and lack of registration and reconciliation of assets, overvaluation of liabilities and the existence of unrecorded liabilities in the amount of 8.4 million dollars.