It is the largest employer in Brazil, with more than 109,000 employees, both internal and outsourced, and is the only company to be present in all municipalities in the country,[4] with a wide network of owned and franchised units.[7] The new name and status, ECT, was created Thursday, 20 March 1969, as a public company under the Ministry of Communications, through the transformation of the Federal Authority which was then the Department of Posts and Telegraphs.At the moment, the two plants together are producing about 2.5 m mailpieces a month, including communications for the Ministry of Health and notifications for the Federal Highway Police and the Judiciary.[15] In June 2022, the company's president Floriano Peixoto, spoke about the changes implemented in recent years during the radio program A Voz do Brasil.According to the president, radical actions were taken to accelerate the investigation of irregularities and strengthen governance, in addition, they sought to rationalize its resources, getting rid of unused and unserviceable assets.