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US-CUBAN political reconciliation moved forward on Thursday as ambassador Jose Ramon Cabanas Rodriguez presented his credentials to US President Barack Obama.
Meanwhile, communications giant Verizon became the second major US company to begin operations in Cuba, offering phone services.
Further breakthroughs can be expected by the end of the year, said a US official.
The Obama administration intends to move on its own in coming days by releasing new rules designed to loosen the US economic embargo, he said.
Washington and Havana are slated to begin a “pilot programme” allowing Cubans and US residents to send mail directly.
Direct mail service was halted in 1963 and letters and packages travel back and forth through Canada and Mexico.
The postal programme will use Miami and Havana airports, the official said.
The US and Cuba are also expected to finalise an agreement on resuming direct, commercial airline routes next year.
