ANNUAL REPORT 2010 - Konkurentsiamet

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egulation No. 20 of the Minister of Economic Affairs and Communications of 06.03.2009 “Requirements to revenue and cost accounting of the provider of universal postal service”). Pursuant to the Postal Act, at least 90 per cent of items of correspondence forwarded as ordinary items which are deposited with the UPS provider shall be delivered to the addressee during the day after deposit. A UPS provider ensures that a person independent of the service provider inspects compliance of the UPS with the quality requirements. In addition, the Competition Authority carries out annual verification. A verification mailing carried out in the year 2010 from July to October identified that the delivery quality of items of correspondence complies with the provisions of § 37 subsection 5 of the Postal Act. FIGURE 16 Quality of delivery of items of correspondence in the year 2010. Upon verification of delivery, 826 of the total 900 mailed items of correspondence that were being accounted for were delivered to the addressee in due time, meaning that the share of mailed items delivered in time equalled to 91.8%. 6.5% or 59 items of correspondence were 67
delivered to the addressee a day later. 1.1% or 10 items of correspondence reached the mailboxes of their addressees with a delay of two days or more (see figure 16). As mentioned, two undertakings were licensed to provide different postal services in the year 2010 – Eesti Post and Express Post. The activity licence prescribes the minimum number of access points of the provider of postal services. It means that a provider of postal services may have more access points, but in order to decrease the minimum supply, it must submit a respective reasoned application to the Competition Authority. A prerequisite of satisfying the application is compliance with the requirements of the Postal Act. As of 31 December 2010, the minimum number of access points prescribed by the activity licences was 3447, of which 347 were postal offices and 3100 mailboxes. Only Eesti Post had mailboxes. Pursuant to activity licences, postal offices were divided between Eesti Post and Express Post correspondingly – 344 and 3. No postal offices were being used jointly by the licensed providers of postal services in the year 2010. The minimum number of postal offices of the companies as prescribed by activity licences is shown in table 1. Tabel 1 Minimum number of postal offices of companies possessing activity licences Provider of postal services As of 31.12.2009 As of 31.12.2010 Eesti Post 351 344 Express Post 3 3 In the year 2010, proceedings continued regarding applications submitted by Eesti Post on 04.08.2009, whereby Eesti Post wished to establish the minimum number of UPS postal offices to equal 344. Eesti Post reasoned the proposal with modernisation of the postal network and added that it would allow Eesti Post to choose more flexible open hours, contributing thereby to finding franchise partners and decreasing losses. In its application, Eesti Post mentioned that during the course of preparation for the decrease in the minimum number of postal offices it had analysed the postal offices’ locations, demand for postal services and service profitability, and as a result of the analysis the company had prepared a list of possible postal offices where Eesti Post would have to find alternative means of presence in the future. 68
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