The 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.
Read MoreAccording to a reliable ranking source at the Tupolev company, TNT, specializing at transiting mail by air and is among the world’s largest companies in this sphere, may purchase “a considerable quantity of Tu-204-class planes,” produced by the Aviastar-SP Enterprise of Ulyanovsk.
As the source ascertained, “at the moment TNT is using 4 Tu-204 planes, two of them with PS-90A engines produced in Russia and two Tu-204-120 planes, equipped by foreign engines. Liege is a station for 36-38 planes of the TNT airline. Approximately 80% of this fleet should be replaced within the next few years (almost 25 aircraft). TNT is satisfied with Tu-204 planes, equipped both with PS-90A and Rolls Royce engines. From the promising fleet of 25 aircraft, Tu-204 planes of Russia could count on the main part (over 50%) of that quantity.”
Read MoreOn 1 December, postal rates will increase for the second time this year, according to Radio Mayak on 15 November. Under the new rates sending a postcard will cost 2.75 rubles ($0.09), up from 2.45 rubles, and the standard rate for printed matter will be 6.45 rubles, up from 5.65 rubles. Postal rates last went up on 15 May.
Read MoreRussia’s Anti-Monopoly Policy Ministry announced Wednesday it has given the go-ahead to an average 12%-14% increase in rates for sending letters and small packages through the Federal Postal Service .
The new rates, which will take effect on December 1, are expected to just cover the service’s mail-handling costs.
Read MoreRussia’s Communications and IT Ministry expects to increase the number of public access Internet outlets at Russian post offices to 3,000 by the end of 2002, First Deputy Minister Alexander Kiselyov told reporters Wednesday.
Kiselyov added that the ministry hoped that Russia would have about 5,000-7,000 public access Internet outlets in 2003.
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