Polish Post – first steps towards becoming a company

The Infrastructure Ministry finally commenced work on transforming Poczta Polska (the Polish Post) into a joint-stock company. Currently, the Post is a public utility company, which makes management and investment decisions very difficult. This is a huge problem, as the postal services market is becoming more liberal, and in 2009 it should become completely so. The Post’s management presented a set of documents in favor of transforming it into a joint stock company to the Ministry in January. The Ministry started work on the legislative changes, enabling the commercialisation of Post, several days ago. The proposal should be ready for inter-ministerial consultations during the term of office of the current government. Chances that present MPs would stand a chance of discussing it are slim. They may have to deal with the proposed changes, if the elections are postponed until September.