Russian Post, the nationwide postal service established last September, will become a joint stock company next year and will go public in 2007, Communications Deputy Minister Alexander Kiselyov said Thursday.
The change in the company’s structure is part of a planned reorganization adopted in June to increase efficiency, speed and quality of the postal services.
Read MoreThe state-owned Russian Post company plans to receive USD400 million in revenues from new services by 2006, the company’s acting director Igor Syrtsov told a news conference Wednesday.
In 2002 the revenues from these Internet-related services accounted for 3% of the postal service’s total revenues.
Read MoreRussia now has around 6,600 public-access internet terminals in post offices across the country, says Ilya Genkin of the postal-services department of the Russian Communications Ministry.
Read MoreThe Communications Ministry on Friday increased tariffs for postal services from 3.25 rubles (10 cents) to 3.7 rubles for unregistered letters and from 2.45 rubles to 2.75 rubles for unregistered postcards.
Read MoreThe number of public access Internet outlets at Russian post offices stood at 6,600 at the beginning of the year, up from a little over 1,000 at the beginning of 2002, Ilya Genkin, a representative of the postal service department in Russia’s Communications and IT Ministry, said Tuesday. He was speaking at a conference on high technologies in the Russian postal service.
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