Georgian Post

Since ancient times, the news were transferred rapidly across the country through couriers and messengers mentioned in Kartlis Tskhovreba (lit.

By the end of the 19th century, an important representative of the Georgian economical thought, Ioane Batonishvili, who created the bill of State’s order reform, thought that arranging postal stations would be rather beneficial for the people and provide income for the Treasury.

He wrote: “Posts are to be located in three regions: Kartli, Kakheti and among Tatars”… The Georgian bullock carts are closely linked to the first postal transfers in Georgia.

Georgian carts are exhibited at the Popov Central Museum of Communications (in Saint-Petersburg) among the oldest means of postal transportation.

In 1840, the twelfth Postal District was created, covering the “Kartli-Imereti” and the Kaspi regions.