258 jobs were opened in the Azerbaijani postal network in 2005, Subhan Kazimov, the Director General of the Azerpocht State Enterprise, told Trend.
In 2005 Azerpocht commissioned 160 postal objects with 137 newly-built rural post-offices. The rest is reconstructed and repaired old buildings in the regions of the country.
According Kazimov, construction and reconstruction of the postal objects aims at improvement of rendering of postal services to the population.
The measures are taken within the state program on social and economic development of the regions for 2004-2008 and the action plan of the Communications and Information Technologies Ministry.