New post companies are coming, the monopoly of CP weakens

TNT Post (Netherlands), post company, is starting to offer services, which have been ensured by the national post company Ceska posta (Prague, Czech Republic), in the Czech Republic during 4 2006. TNT Post will deliver heavier ordinary parcels and addressed trade notifications in the Czech Republic. TNT Post will focus on lucrative firm customers, which have ensured proceeds of about CEK 8 bil per year to CP so far. DPD, which is owned by the post company Groupe La Poste (France) through GeoPost, is extending its operation in the Czech Republic too. The Czech Republic has cardinal importance for DPD. That is why the firm decided to build a new large-distribution centre in this country. The coming of competitors to the Czech post market is allowed by a new standard, which is decreasing the monopoly of CP gradually. The monopoly should definitively end in 2009, when further firms are able to deliver common letters and parcels up to 50 g.