German Regulator, RegTP, presents Annual Report
The postal services market generated revenues in 2003 of more than €23bn. Around two thirds of the postal services market – essentially, courier, express and parcel services, but parts of the letter market too – have already been opened to competition. Almost two thirds of the revenues are accounted for by Deutsche Post AG (DPAG). The remaining third is split between a number of providers, courier, express and parcel service providers in particular.
Revenues in 2003 in the licensed area (delivery of letters up to 1000g in weight) were in the region of €10bn. A third of the letter market is open to competition; the competitive potential is thus about €3.3bn. Although the revenues generated by the competitors have grown steadily with a plus of 130 percent since 2000, they continued at a low level in 2003, reaching €400m only. DPAG thus holds 96 percent of the letter market.
To date, RegTP has granted licences for letter deliveries to around 1,500 companies. Of these, a maximum of 900 were active in the market in 2003. Almost 500 have exited already; around 100 are not yet, or are no longer, operating. Jobs with the active companies currently total almost 24,000, some 5,500 of which are full time.
