OREANDA-NEWS. February 11, 2007. "Granting state services, post shouldn’t operate in the red", noted L. Reiman, Minister for Information Technologies and Communications of the RF at the press-conference on work results in 2007 and goals for the midterm, reported the press-centre of Russian Post.

Postal services under control remain lossmaking for post as commercial companies having licenses for postal services, seize the most profitable sectors of postal market, so Russian Post is to serve settlements, less attractive, with expensive delivery cost, remote and difficult-to-access.

Thus, performing state functions and providing public social services post losses billions rubles each year. The Minister characterized the situation as abnormal.