The New Zealand Post Office was a New Zealand government department.
As a Government Department, the New Zealand Post Office or N.Z.P.O., previously the Post and Telegraph Department or P & T, had as the political head the Postmaster General who was a member of Cabinet, and, when it was a separate department the Minister of Telegraphs.
The N.Z.P.O. was similar to the British Post Office or GPO, and so was similar to European PTT or Postal Telegraph and Telephone agencies, which were government monopolies.
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