Liberalized postal market begins to impact on Polish Post

Polish Post (PP) is slowly feeling the breath of the competition on the back of the neck, as the market was partially liberalized on May 1.

It will be further opened at the beginning of 2006 and become fully liberalized in 2009. “I forecast that we will mainly compete with the German and Dutch post offices, which are the largest operators in Europe. Even worse, they will focus on the most lucrative segments of the market, such as large cities,” said PP’s general director Tadeusz Bartkowiak. PP has its work out cut if it wants to survive and prosper. It will have to change its revenue structure, which at present is 70% based on postal services, while its European counterparts have balanced revenues from postal, financial and logistics services. The expected cost of implementing PP’s modernization strategy is in the region of z³.7 billion. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 10) M.M.