OREANDA-NEWS. June 22, 2007. The speech of Alex Dik, representative of Germany consulting company "VIK" within the framework of Strategic Forum "Pochtovaya Troika — 2007" was devoted to the drawing of the results of liberalization in postal sector for ten years.

Liberalization of postal business in Europe has begun over 10 years ago. Currently, about one third of the markets are liberalized. Many countries, among them Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Great Britain have entirely refused of monopoly in postal sector. 18 postal postal organizations of twenty five European ones have become corporations, six of them are state companies.

According to Alex Dik, there are a lot of examples of non-efficient and unprofitable monopolies, however monopoly process helped many countries to solve the problem of crisis development and to avoid the complete business collapse in some cases. Thus in January 2006 Post of Great Britain finished the process of assets liberalization. At the same time the company didn’t lose share of market of universal postal service. Despite general reduction of postal items volumes 97% of returns of Great Britain post accounts for written correspondence delivery. To keep the positions in postal sector under new work terms Post of Great Britain upgraded delivery centers of incoming and outgoing correspondence, implemented number of new services based on new telecommunication developments and improved tariff system.

Postal service liberalization makes the enterprises hold more aggressive policy on service quality, stated Alex Dik in his report. Moreover, free market made the participants to turn to efficient enterprise management, offer customers and partners new principles of cooperation, strengthen competition in telecommunication sector.