Tag: Poczta Polska

Postal strike looms as negotiations break down

Posted by | Apr 16, 2008 | |

Members of the Solidarity trade union of Poczta Polska (PP) have sent a letter to the company’s management board stating plans to commence an open-ended general strike on Monday. During a recent referendum, some 87% of employees supported strike action.

The letter was a result of failed negotiations yesterday. Talks will continue later today, and if a compromise is not reached by the end of the week, the strike will begin. The work force demands an increase in the gross salaries of z³.700 per month as of the beginning of this year. The management of the company on the other hand proposed an increase of z³.280 in the first few months of the year, which will be increased to z³.500 in December.

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Poczta Polska is banking on mobile phone services

Posted by | Mar 3, 2008 | |

Bank Pocztowy, a subsidiary of national postal service Poczta Polska is working extensively developing mobile banking for its customers despite its service already being available in almost every post office across the country.

A client would be able to manage his account via the mobile phone, making transfers and verifying account balances, but also making small payments like for parking. “We cannot reveal detailed solutions, but these will be services totally new on the Polish market,” said Piotr Kamiñski, president of Bank Pocztowy. A detailed offer will be provided later this year and according to the president, in this case, time plays the key role. “If we do not introduce a service this year, than next year it will be too late, as the competition will be ahead of us,” said the bank’s president. Bank Pocztowy, which so far has been chasing the leaders, believes that a strong entrance into mobile banking will enable it to catch up and take over competitors to become a mid-size, easily accessible institution, offering services to 1 million clients.

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Privatization plans for Polish Post

Posted by | Jan 28, 2008 | |

The government has announced its privatization plans for Poland’s largest employer, Polish Post, but the state will retain control

Privatization plans for Polish Post (Poczta Polska) were announced last week by Maciej Jankowski, Deputy Minister and Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Infrastructure responsible for Polish Post’s activities. Deputy Minister Jankowski revealed that an act on the commercialization of Polish Post has already been prepared, but that governmental talks on the act have been postponed from January to March.

“Polish Post will be a modern company by 2013,” Jankowski pledged on private television station TVN24.

The act is expected to be passed and implemented sometime in the middle of this year. Thanks to the legislation, Polish Post will change its status from a state-owned enterprise to a company wholly owned by the Treasury, which is the first step towards its privatization. Sometime in the future some shares in the firm will be sold on the bourse, “but this will not occur earlier than in 2010,” Jankowski said. According to the strategy, the state will maintain a controlling stake in the company.

On January 21, Jankowski met with the Common Labor Union Representation (Wspolna Reprezentacja Zwiazkowa) of the labor unions within Polish Post to discuss the future and social situation of the firm.

Jankowski said that he would not make any major decisions on restructurization until he had held further talks with the firm’s labor unions and management. Polish Post is Poland’s largest employer, with nearly 100,000 employees.

At the European Commission’s insistence, at the end of 2007 the government accepted separate legislation specifying that Polish Post cannot be bailed out by the state in the event of bankruptcy. The matter will now go to the Sejm.

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Polish Post: The postal market assessment for the year 2006

Posted by | Aug 10, 2007 | |

The President of UKE published a short version of an assessment study on the postal market functioning in 2006 submitted to the Minister of Transport.

The assessment study on the postal market functioning is based on information provided in the reports of the Poczta Polska activities – the operator which provides universal postal services, and also on the reports of operators which do not provide universal postal services.

In addition, the information sources include the results of inspections of postal activities carried out under the act, an authorization or a registration as well as the results of inspections aiming at the detection of postal activities carried out without a required authorization or registration.

The postal market, in its evolution, is approaching the crucial moment of its full opening to competition. Therefore it requires regulatory activities that will ensure its sustainable and harmonious development.

This assessment study is an element of regulatory activities undertaken in order to monitor the developments in the postal market.

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European postal operators express caution on the liberalisation of the postal market.

Posted by | May 31, 2007 | |

As the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union are about to decide on a proposal of the European Commission to fully liberalise the European postal market in 2009, 12 postal operators, in charge of providing the universal service in their countries, express their support for the cautious approach followed in the ongoing debates.

The postal operators of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Hungary, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland and Slovakia observe with interest the caution that characterises the majority of debates in the EU Parliament on the issue of postal market liberalisation.

Over the past few months several signatory postal operators have highlighted the difficulty of identifying and implementing a financing mechanism that guarantees the continuity of the universal postal service in the event of full liberalisation of the market.

Faced with this problem, several debates in the EU Parliament called for caution and raised crucial issues such as viable financing mechanisms of the universal service, dangers of social dumping and the necessary conditions for a level playing field between market players. As a result, three European Parliamentary Committees as well the European Social and Economic Committee proposed new dates for the completion of the internal market for postal services, to be confirmed if appropriate. In the meantime, all efforts must be constructively spent to propose adequate solutions to the above mentioned points which are essential to make liberalisation possible.

The 12 signatory postal operators support a responsible approach and assert that the actual uncertainties must be addressed before the current system of financing of the universal postal service is put to an end.

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