The Postmaster General of Sri Lanka is the appointed head of Sri Lanka Post

Sri Lanka Post

The Department of Posts, functioning under the brand name Sri Lanka Post, is a government operated postal system in Sri Lanka. The postal headquarters is the General Post Office which is located in Colombo. The department itself comes under the purview of the Ministry of Telecommunications and Posts...

, which is a government department. The current Postmaster General is K. A. S. Senadheera.

History

In 1815, the British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

took control of the entire country. They re-organised the postal service and a permanent Post Office was established in Colombo in 1882. The first Post Master General of Ceylon was A. Kennedy an Army Officer. However as far back as 1815 there has been Post Master Generals'; E. Bletterman was the PMG for the whole island. Thereafter in 1817 Lewis Sansoni succeeded Bletterman as the second Postmaster General. The third Postmaster General was Major. G. Stewart and during his period he was instrumental in extending the postal services to major towns in the country.

List of Postmaster Generals of Ceylon

• A. Kennedy
• E. Bletterman
• Lewis Sansoni
• Major G. Stewart
  • incomplete

List of Postmaster Generals of Sri Lanka

• • incomplete
• M. K. B. Dissanayake
• K. A. S. Senadheera