Definition of terms is given in accordance with the law of Ukraine on the postal service:
Postal code – Code postal address in the form of a conditional digital designation of post offices, including rural areas, where there are no post offices;
Post office box – a box with means for preventing unauthorized access, installed in post offices and rental destination for a certain period to get his name on the mail, postal orders, periodicals;
PO Box – a special box with means for preventing unauthorized access, designed for simple recipients of mail, periodicals, reports of receipt of registered mail;
Subscriber centralized mail delivery – a special cabinet with the subscriber’s mailbox with the means to prevent unauthorized access, which is installed in the hallways, lobbies of residential and administrative buildings for recipients of ordinary mail, periodicals, reports of receipt of registered mail;
The recipient (beneficiary) – legal or natural person who is addressed postal, telegraphic or other communication;
Parcel – a postal prints, business papers, objects of cultural and community and other purposes, the size, weight and packing order is established in accordance with the legislation of Ukraine;
Small package – International registered mail with samples of the goods, small objects of gift and other measures, dimensions, weight and packing order is established in accordance with the legislation of Ukraine;
Means of postal services – postal devices and equipment, vehicles, postal services, postage stamps, stamped envelopes and cards, as well as the building (rooms in buildings) used for the provision of postal services;
Letter – mail in a mailing envelope with an investment of written communication or document, the size and mass of which are set according to the legislation of Ukraine;
Marking Machine – a device designed to be applied to written correspondence print public sign confirming payment of postal services, the date of receipt and other information;
Postal network – a set of post offices and postal routes;
National postal operator (national operator) – Operator, which in accordance with legislation providing universal postal services throughout the territory of Ukraine and which provides exclusive rights to carry out certain activities in the field of postal services;
Objects postal services – post offices, processing centers and transportation of mail, zonal nodes, postal service, post office, postal service points and other units involved in a single production and technological process of providing postal services;
Postal operator (operator) – subject of entrepreneurial activity, in accordance with legislation provides postal services;
Money transfer (mail transfer) – postal service to fulfill orders by payment on shipment and sent them to the specified amount of money;
Forwarding of mail (postal transfer) – a set of operations for receiving, processing, transportation and delivery (delivery) of postal items (postal money orders);
Written correspondence – simple and registered letters, postcards, printed matter, literature for the blind and small packets;
Sending – postal items with cultural and community and other purposes not prohibited by the legislation to the shipment, size, weight and packing order is established in accordance with the legislation of Ukraine;
Postal services – a product of the activities of postal operator for acceptance, processing, transportation and delivery (delivery) of mail users on the implementation of instructions of postal orders, bank transactions, aimed at meeting the needs of users;
Postal security – specific legislation a set of measures aimed at protecting the privacy of information in the postal service, postal saving, money and means of postal communication;
Mailers – mail in the form of a standard form containing open written communication;
Postage stamp – a sign of the state, made in accordance with the legislation with reference to their nominal value and the state, which is a means of payment for postal services provided by the national operator;
PO Box – a box with means for preventing unauthorized access, which is installed in the designated areas and is designed to collect from the senders of ordinary letters and postcards;
Postage – letters, postcards, parcels, sekogramy, small packets, international shipments with a declared value, parcels, direct mail containers are designed in accordance with the laws of Ukraine;
Postal services – reception, processing, transportation and delivery (delivery) of postal items, the execution of instructions for users of postal orders, bank transactions;
Postal services in common use – a component of the postal service of Ukraine, designed to provide postal services specified level of quality to all users;
Mail service, special purpose – part of postal services in Ukraine, designed to provide postal services to certain categories of users;
Secograms – written statements by sekograficheskim way, publications for the blind, a cliché with signs sekografii supplied in clear text, as well as sound recordings and special paper intended solely for the blind, provided that they are sent officially recognized institutions for the blind or in address;
Community postal services (users) – natural and legal persons using postal services;
Universal postal service – a set of postal services public a set level of quality available to all users throughout the territory of Ukraine on the tariffs regulated by the state.