In 2009, postal traffic stood at 460.6 million items, down 33% compared with the previous year, while the postal services market increased about 55% to RON1.63 billion.
Of the overall postal traffic, 93.5% was internal traffic, which registered a 10.7% decrease compared with 2009 to 385.59 million items. Internal postal traffic of state-owned postal company Posta Romana dropped 16.4%, while that of other local postal services providers climbed 21.2%.
International postal traffic fell 6.1% last year to about 26.9 million items. On this segment, Posta Romana registered a 11% drop compared with 2009, while the other postal operators saw a 36% increase, reads the press release.
Postal traffic on the Express services segment dropped 2.3% to 9.6 million items last year, although international traffic surged 54.3%.(EUR1=RON4.3346)