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Ethiopian Post — which now trades as Ethiopost — is the national postal operator of Ethiopia. Its own site lists Express Mail Service (EMS), Registered Letter, Ordinary Letter and Parcel Post for sending, plus parcel delivery and a Post Box Service for receiving, and it runs both domestic and international mail. Around those it offers a Virtual Postbox for renewing a P.O. box online, a price calculator, pickup booking and a branch locator, and its pages are published in English and Amharic.
Most Ethiopian Post numbers on the 24hTrack platform are outbound: they start inside Ethiopia and travel out. The histories read like the postal chain they are — Posting/Collection at a branch such as Lideta or Megenagna, the item received and dispatched, arrival at the Addis Ababa office of exchange, presentation to export customs, then departure from the country and pickup by the destination post, with entries from UK and Canadian networks appearing at the far end. Because the number keeps the same form all the way through, the same 13 characters work in Ethiopia and in the destination country.
Ships for: People in Ethiopia sending letters and parcels abroad through a branch post office, Recipients abroad waiting on EMS or Parcel Post items sent from Ethiopia, Domestic Ethiopian post and P.O. box customers
Tracking number format: Two letters, nine digits and then ET — for example EG123456789ET. This is the international postal format, so the ET at the end marks Ethiopia as the country of origin. EG is by far the most common opening, and the whole thing is 13 characters
Typical delivery time: Measured on the 24hTrack platform from the first scan to the delivery scan, half of the Ethiopian Post items arrived within about 12 days and 80% within about 15. A long stretch of that is the international leg, where a parcel can sit for days between the departure entry and the first scan abroad without anything being wrong.
Knowing where your parcel is makes it easier to plan the day you collect it. With 24hTrack you don't need an account on Ethiopian Post's website. Paste the tracking number in the box above and we work out which carrier it belongs to and show you every scan Ethiopian Post has published, on one page.
Official carrier website: www.ethiopostal.com
They are the same organisation: Ethiopost is the trading name of the national postal service of Ethiopia. It handles domestic mail and international post, and its own site lists EMS, Registered Letter, Ordinary Letter and Parcel Post as its sending services. If your tracking number came from a post office counter in Ethiopia, this is the operator behind it.
Two letters, then nine digits, then ET — EG123456789ET is the pattern, 13 characters in all. Numbers starting EG are the most common on the 24hTrack platform. The ET ending is the country code for Ethiopia and it stays on the number for the whole journey, so the same number is the one to use once the item reaches the destination country.
No, and this one worries a lot of people. In postal wording, "presented to export Customs/Security" means customs has been shown the item, and "returned from export Customs/Security" means customs is finished and has handed it back to the post office to carry on. You will often see "Released from export customs and security" saying the same thing in plainer words a minute later. A genuine problem reads differently — it names a hold, a charge to pay, or a return to the sender.
It is the code for the office of exchange in Addis Ababa — the sorting point where international mail leaves or enters the country. ET is Ethiopia and ADD is Addis Ababa. Seeing "ETADDA, Arrival at outward office of exchange" followed by "ETADDA, Departure from outward office of exchange" is the normal pair: your item reached the international gateway and then left the country.
On the 24hTrack platform, half of the items arrived within about 12 days of the first scan and 80% within about 15. Domestic items move faster than that; the long tail belongs to international post, where the crossing and the handover to the destination operator add most of the time. EMS is the quicker service Ethiopost offers, but the destination country's own network still sets the last few days.
That is the handover, and it is the quietest part of the journey. Once "Departed country of origin" appears, the item is in the air or at sea and nothing scans it until the destination post takes it in — several days of silence is normal. Keep using the same number: it carries the ET ending and is valid in the destination country too. Paste it on 24hTrack and you will see the foreign entries appear on the same timeline as the Ethiopian ones.
EMS is a service, not a separate company. Express Mail Service is the fast international option that Ethiopost sells at its counters, so an EMS item from Ethiopia is still an Ethiopian Post item and still tracks on the same number. The difference is speed and priority handling, not who is carrying it.
Yes. Paste the number on 24hTrack and you get the status and the history available for it — free, no account, no app. The carrier is worked out from the number itself, so you do not have to pick Ethiopia from a list first, and if you are waiting on several items you can paste them all at once.
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