office and at all branches. On March 6, 2016 the Russian Post launched a new website. In September 2021, Vladimir Putin charged to increase capitalization of Russian Post from state budget for modernization of branches in rural and hard-to-reach areas by 2025. Russian Post expects IPO in 2023 in a way to avoid probability of liabilities default as well as call for 500 billion roubles of pump priming in two years, accordingly to Russian Post strategy by 2030. Structure Russian Post includes: central administrative apparatus, consisting of 22 units (Directorate departments, the Secretariat); 87 branches; 41,901 post offices. Enterprise branches are divided into 82 territorial control federal postal service and 5 specialized, which include: The main centre-haul mail - FSUE "Russian Post"; EMS Russian Post; Automated sorting centres - branch office of Russian Post; Hybrid mail centres - branch office of FSUE Russian Post; Russian Post - FSUE Russian Post in Berlin. Branches are separate structural subdivisions, including post offices, a department for transportation of mail, and mainline and regional sorting centres. Operations Russian Post offers all traditional mail services in its 42,000 offices. In addition it offers to cash payment cards, accept utilities payments, execute cash transfers, receive and pay off consumer loans, and to sell lottery, rail, flight and theatre tickets. It also retails various products including phone cards, envelopes and, of course, postage stamps. In October 2012 the Russian Post had launched SMS notification for domestic shipments, and since December 2013 in a pilot program, Moscow clients of the Russian Post began to receive free SMS notification of passage of parcels from abroad. According to the postal operator, a notice will inform the customer about the admission of international mail at the point of issuance and will complement the traditional paper notices. In the future, the Post plans to inform the customer via SMS about all stages of the passage of parcels including delivery in Russia, customs control and admission to point of delivery. Pochtomat In late 2010 a new delivery method with automated machines called Pochtomat () which is a combination of the words "почта", "post" in Russian, and automat, came into use. In 2011, a number of those postmats were deployed in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. In April 2013 the first Pochtomat began working in Saransk and in the summer of 2013 first Pochtomat in the South Urals began in Chelyabinsk. Automatic issue of shipments