“Nearly four million mail deliveries weighing below 50 grams are operated monthly by other companies who thus breach the monopoly held by Posta Romana until December 31, 2012. Calculated on a RON1 tariff, Posta Romania loses RON4 million per month, mainly in urban areas,” said Balaj.
Posta Romana’s postal services consist in collecting, sorting, transporting and delivering local mail, as well as distributing overseas mail locally.
Mid-May, Communications Minister Dan Nica said the ministry and communications market regulator ANCOM will inform public authorities and institutions of Posta Romana’s monopoly until the end of the year and will require them to have ongoing contracts with other postal operators terminated.
Companies TCE Post SRL, Associated Group Communications SRL, Total Post Services SRL, Direct Post Services SRL, Cargo Serv Post SRL and Did Rapid Curier have so far been fined by ANCOM for infringing on Posta Romana’s monopoly:
Postmaster SRL is a private postal operator with a turnover of nearly EUR10 million in 2011. Postmaster SRL is controlled by three Romanian individuals and Austria’s Post Group which owns a 26% stake. (EUR1=RON4.4639)