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Germany’s Cartel Office has said Deutsche Post World Net AG must allow mail sorters and consolidators of letters weighing below 100 grams access to its delivery networks. The Cartel Office also criticised Deutsche Post for giving rebates of between 3 and 21 pct to its own major client firms for bulk mail contracts, which it does not offer to other mail service providers. ‘Through granting rebates, Deutsche Post is hindering competitors from entering the letter collection, pre-sorting and delivery market,’ it said, adding that this hurts small- and medium-sized companies’ whose letter volumes are too small to obtain a rebate. It said that Deutsche Post’s current exclusive license to distribute letters in Germany below 100 grams does not justify this kind of behaviour.

Deutsche Post World Net AG will receive a letter from Germany’s cartel office Monday stating it may no longer prohibit competitors from collecting, sorting and franking commercial letters that weigh less than 100 grammes, Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported in an unsourced pre-release of tomorrow’s edition. Deutsche Post is scheduled to lose its monopoly at the end of 2007 as part of an EU-wide move to liberalise the market for mail delivery.