Russia’s Telecommunications and IT Ministry has hiked postal service tariffs by an average of 15% as of Tuesday, ITAR-TASS reported quoting a source in the Anti-Monopoly Ministry.
Now it costs 3.15 rubles to send a post card, up from 2.75 rubles.
Read MorePostal charges are to go up on June 10: an average increase in tariffs on the dispatch of postcards, letters, and printed matter will be 14.6 percent, the Russian Ministry on Anti-Monopoly Policy announced on Wednesday.
Read MorePostal services turnover in Russia may increase to USD 3 billion by 2010 from the expected USD 1.2 billion this year, provided the postal service development program is implemented, Anton Shchegolikhin from the IT and Communications Ministry said Thursday.
Read MoreTNT Express delivery service upped its revenues from the Russian market by 40 percent last year and doubled its volumes over the past two years, a company official said Tuesday.
TNT saw growth in all its services in Russia last year, Harro van Graafeiland, the country general manager said at a news conference, without providing exact volumes.
Read MoreRussian 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.
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