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Bulgarian postal workers ready to go on strike over lack of reform

Posted by | Oct 25, 2007 | |

Employees of state-owned postal operator Bulgarian Posts were ready to go on strike over a lack of reforms and restructuring in the company, leaders of postal workers’ trade unions said on October 24, as quoted by Dnevnik daily.

The trade unionists’ reaction was in reply to the absence of Bulgarian Post’s executive director Entsislav Harmandjiev from a round table discussion on the restructuring in the sector. The principal owner of the company, the Transport Ministry, was not represented at the forum, either.

The syndicates said postal workers had been preparing for months to go on strike because of the government’s lack of vision for the future of the operator. Bulgarian Posts were not present at the discussion because they had nothing to say to their employees, trade union leaders said. They had asked Harmandjiev many times to present them a strategy for the company’s development but he always offered them just rearranged versions of strategies drafted by previous managements. The current management obviously had no strategic vision for the development of the company and that was demotivating the employees and reason for many of them to resign.

All conditions existed for the liberalisation of the postal services market in Bulgaria after January 2009, said Oleg Zlatarksi from the State Agency on Information Technologies and Communications, which defined the state policy in the sector.

The services, which are currently reserved only for Bulgarian posts would be liberalised after the end of 2008, and in all the other services there were private operators on the market already, he said.

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Bulgarian Postal Services Market At 84.7 Mln Euro in 2006

Posted by | Jul 19, 2007 | |

The Bulgarian postal services market was estimated at about 166 mln Bulgarian levs (USD 117.1 mln/84.7 mln euro) in 2006, the annual report of the Communications Regulation Commission (CRC) showed on July 18, 2007.

No comparative figures were available.

Express delivery services and parcel shipments accounted for 67 pct of the market.

The revenue of the deliveries segment jumped by 87 pct in annual terms last year. As many as 45 couriers operated on the market at the end of 2006. The strong competition in the deliveries segment had a negative impact on the share of state-owned Bulgarian Posts, which shrank to 36 pct in 2006 from 50 pct in 2004 and 42 pct in 2005.

According to experts, the new couriers registered higher revenues due to the better quality of their services, investments in new technologies and lower expenses on networks development.

Yet, Bulgarian Posts was the sole player that offered integrated postal services in 2006. It had four rivals on the local market in the field of money transfers — Finance Engineering, Faktor I.N., Easypay and Cash Express Service.

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Bulgarian private postal operator T-Post opens first office

Posted by | Jul 12, 2007 | |

T-Post, Bulgaria’s first private postal operator has opened its first customer center half a year after securing a license to provide a universal postal service.

The business launch was slightly delayed because the telecom regulator approved the T-Post price tariffs only a month ago, said Lachezar Kaparashev, board chairman of express delivery company Tip Top Courier which owns the T-Post trademark.

T-Post invested 0.5 mln levs in the new office which opened in Sofia’s Mladost residential district.

Another postal station will open in the capital’s Nadezhda borough within the next two months.

Some 20 rollouts are planned for 2007 with locations in Plovdiv, Blagoevgrad and Sliven.

Kaparashev said the first phase of the company’s development should conclude in late 2008 when it should have a network of offices in 48 population centers.

T-Post handles mail and parcel shipments of up to 2 kg, catalogues and money wires.
The newly minted postal operators like T-Post are allowed to handle mail consignments weighing less than 51 g but are unable to offer prices cheaper than 1.37 levs per letter.

That will happen after the state-owned Bulgarian Posts loses its monopoly in January 2009.

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Bulgarian Posts, France's La Poste Boost Cooperation

Posted by | Sep 29, 2003 | |

“Bulgarian Posts” and the French post “La Poste” have signed a cooperation memorandum in the postal services field. Stana Hristova, Executive Director of “Bulgarian Posts” and Edward Deian, director of “European integration and international cooperation” in France’s “La Poste” signed the cooperation memorandum. Officials of the two companies explained that this memorandum would contribute to the good relationships between the two institutions. The agreement aims to boost postal financial services cooperation including transfer of international post orders, Bulgaria’s Transport Ministry officials explained.

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