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Polish Post is aiming to develop into a joint-stock company by the first half of next year. “We are trying to change our company’s status from a public utility enterprise to a joint-stock company,” said PP’s executive director Tadeusz Bartkowiak during a Sejm Infrastructure Committee meeting. “We want the change to occur as soon as possible and we are hoping that the Sejm will be able to work on the issue in the first half of 2005,” he added. The board of directors has accepted the proposal and it is now due to be discussed by the Post Council, which meets on November 23-24.

In preparation for a fiercer battle with the competition due to the liberalization of the postal market, Polska Poczta (PP) Polish Post will begin changing its structure next year. 100 additional services that PP currently offers on over a dozen markets will be grouped into three main departments – a postal one, a financial one and a logistics one.

Polish Post 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.