Under the Bhutan Postal Corporation Act 1999 (BPCA), the Directors of the corporation are appointed by the Bhutan government and the chairman is the relevant government minister.

[5] Under the BPCA 1999, Bhutan Post has a monopoly on the handling of standard letters within the country.

Bhutan Post also operates a transport network within the country [6] and between the border town of Phuntsholing and Kolkata in India,[7] which carries mail and passenger traffic.

Bhutan Post had a contract with the Inter-Governmental Philatelic Corporation from 1974 - 1992 to produce a number of special issues a year for sale in the international market for which they received a royalty of up to US$0.110 million annually.

[8] Bhutan Post introduced in 2010 the country's first postcode system set up with assistance of the UPU.