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The Estonian Ministry of Economy and Communications has drafted a bill that would change the requirements for the provider of universal postal service and allow competition for Eesti Post (Estonian Post). “The most important of the requirements for the provider of universal postal service is the obligation to provide postal service to everybody on equal terms in the entire territory of Estonia. The other important obligation is to apply a uniform service fee in domestic postal service throughout Estonia,” the ministry said. Unlike the currently valid law, the bill would create the possibility for providers to render separately, with a respective license, all the different services that are part of the universal postal service. “Hopefully this will result in competition emerging for Eesti Post, which in turn will increase the quality of service and lower the price,” said Alice Vood, adviser to the communications department at the ministry.