UNIVERSAL POSTAL SERVICES IN THE
RUSSIAN FEDERATION: DEVELOPMENT,
FINANCING, FUTURE PROSPECTS
Head of the Federal Communications Agency
Valeriy Bugaenko
Forum on postal regulation
Berne, Switzerland, November, 12, 2009
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Federal Law
“On postal service”
Equal rights for the population, regulatory
authorities and business
to access postal services
Universal postal service
serves to meet customers’
needs for the exchange of
letter-post items at
affordable prices
throughout the territory of
the Russian Federation”
Guarantees
«Art. 2. Basic concepts
Equal rights for all operators of postal
services to provide universal postal
services
Governmental regulation of activities in
universal postal services
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GOVERNMENTAL REGULATION IN THE FIELD OF UNIVERSAL
POSTAL SERVICES
Uniformity of postal norms, standards, requirements and practices
Ministry of Telecom and
Mass Communications
Approval of standard transmission time and delivery standards for UPS
Federal Tariff Service
Regulation of the universal postal rates
The Federal Service for
Supervision in the Sphere
of Information
Technologies and
Communications
Licensing in the field of postal service
State control and supervision in the field of postal service
Arrangement of the issue and distribution of the state postal prepayment indicia
Federal
Telecommunications
Agency
Assignment of the codes to the postal service entities of the Federal postal
service organizations within the territory of the Russian Federation
Production and usage of personalized items for federal postal service
organizations
Management of state-owned postal service organizations activities
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UNIVERSAL POSTAL SERVICE
Urban population
Rural population
25 % of post offices
38,7 mil
people
75 % of post offices
203 licenses on UPS
rendering
109,4 mil
people
42 000 post offices
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PROBABLE WAYS OF UPS FINANCING
Rise of income due to UPS volumes or tariffs increase
Overall financing of designated postal operator by state
Financial support of UPS from Universal service Fund
Rise in UPS profitability by lowering of costs, postal infrastructure
development, logistics improvement and new technologies
implementation
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2010-2013 POSTAL SERVICE INFRASTRUCTURE
MODERNIZATION PROGRAM
Main activities:
• Creation of 28 automated sorting centers
for postal items handling
• Implementation of modern postal sorting
equipment
• Implementation of management and
control systems
• Implementation of resource-saving
Realization of the
Program will help
to provide better
quality of service
and to level down
loss ratio of UPS
technologies
• Renovation of vehicles fleet
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IMPROVEMENTS OF UNIVERSAL POSTAL SERVICE
LEGAL REGULATION
Directions
Distinguish between the notions: “postal item” and “cargo”.
Determine the liability of postal operators and cargo carriers
Competitive climate. Legal
protection of customers
Provide and determine the procedure enabling postal
operators to use the postal networks of other operators
Monopoly elimination
Issue and distribution of postal prepayment indicia. Decision
on sanctions for the production and distribution of
counterfeit postal prepayment indicia
Provide additional state support and guarantees for UPS
rendering
Protection of State financial
interests
Quality of service improvement
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Thank you for your kind attention!