Swiss Post reaches agreement with price regulator
Swiss Post has announced that it has signed a new mutual agreement with the price regulator.
The prices for domestic A and B Mail letters, which were increased for the last time in 2004, and for domestic parcels remain unchanged.
In a statement issued today, Swiss Post said: “The new mutual agreement is valid for a limited period until 31 December 2017 and came into force on 1 July 2016. This follows the expiry on 31 March 2016 of the previous agreement reached in January 2014.”
Following on the from the agreement, Swiss Post said that, by the end of 2017, every household in Switzerland will receive a card with two free one-franc stamps as a gift, and the postal operator will reduce the price of SMS postage stamps from 1.20 to 1 franc as of 1 January 2017.
In addition, between July and October 2017, customers will receive a 30% discount on paid postcards sent via the PostCard Creator App (1.40 instead of 2 francs/card)
Swiss Post will also extend the validity of the one-franc stamps distributed to each Swiss household in 2014 until the end of 2017, and it is aligning its range of products for private customers with that available to business customers. Private customers can now send standard and midi letters in B5 format from 20 mm and up to 50 mm thick as letters for a format surcharge of CHF 1.50 per consignment.
Swiss Post has decided not to go ahead with the planned price increase from 3 to 5 francs for each manually completed waybill submitted by business customers for PostPac International, Priority / Economy and URGENT consignments. Each private customer who does not complete his or her own waybill, but instead has it completed at the post office counter, will now also have to pay a surcharge. This surcharge will also amount to 3 francs instead of 5 francs as initially planned.
The prices of Swiss Post services set out in the mutual agreement dated 20 January 2014 will remain largely unchanged until the end of 2017. This not only concerns the prices of parcels, but also applies to the prices of domestic A and B Mail letters, which were increased for the last time in 2004.
