19 October 2011
19.10.2011
According to the 2010 statistical data report on postal services, published today by ANCOM, the postal market decreased by 10.4% in terms of total postal traffic, a decrease which is by three times lower than the one registered in 2009. If in 2009 the cross-border total traffic grew by more than 60%, in 2010 it witnessed a descendent path, decreasing by 6%.
In 2010, in Romania, 412,535,899 postal items were processed, i.e. an average of 19.26 of postal items per capita as compared to 21.46 in 2009. Out of the total amount of items processed in 2010, CNPR dealt with 79.75%, namely 328,979,895 items, whereas the following ten providers – by volume – processed 65,333,314 items, i.e. 15.84% of the total traffic of processed items. The remaining 4.41%, i.e. 18,222,690 items, have been processed by other providers.
93.5% of the 2010 total postal traffic is held by the domestic postal items, which went down by 10.7% as compared to 2009, reaching 385,592,270 items, in the context in which the domestic traffic of CNPR decreased by 16.4%, and the other providers’ traffic increased instead by 21.2%.
The same dynamics is met in reference to the cross-border items, where the total traffic (26,943,629 items) fell slightly (-6.1%) compared to 2009; in this market segment, CNPR processed by approx. 11% less items than in 2009, while the other providers witnessed a growth by more than 36% of the cross-border traffic volume.
The total postal traffic consists of the traffic of letter-post items (postal services dealing with items of correspondence, printed matter items, small parcels and direct mail items, weighing up to, including, 2 kg), the parcel traffic and the Express services traffic.
In 2010, the letter-post traffic accounted for 93.41% of the total postal traffic and registered decreases both as the domestic (-11.3%) and the cross-border items (-9.1%) are concerned. CNPR holds the largest share in this segment, i.e. more than 83%.
Unlike the letter post traffic, the parcel traffic rose in 2010, both at the domestic (+1.7%) and at the cross-border level (+11.3%). Nevertheless, their share in the total postal traffic is only 4.25%. In 2010, there were collected and distributed 17,553,254 postal parcels, more than 89% of these being processed by alternative postal providers.
While the cross-border traffic of the Express postal services grew by 54.3%, generally, the traffic of these services declined by 2.3%. In 2010, the total traffic of Express services amounted to 9,621,767 postal items, 61% of which were processed by CNPR, the remaining 39% being collected and distributed by other providers.
Competition in the segment of postal services within the scope of universal services further grew in 2010, as, alongside CNPR, there are other 137 providers who succeeded in holding a share of 15.7% within the total traffic, almost double than in 2009. Thus, the alternative providers processed a total of 51,386,830 postal items, increasing by 52.9% compared to 2009, while CNPR processed 275,302,055 items, by 20.2% less than in 2009.
The services outside the scope of universal service (services dealing with items of correspondence, printed matters, direct mail items weighing more than 2 kg, domestic parcels weighing between 10 and 50 kg, parcels weighing between 10 and 50 kg sent from Romania to an address located outside Romania, postal parcels weighing between 20 and 50 kg sent from outside Romania to an address located on its territory, as well as the Cash on Delivery, Change of destination, Special delivery, Advice of delivery and Express services) registered most increases (+4.6%) in terms of total traffic.
In this segment, 85,847,014 postal items were collected and distributed, i.e. 20.81% of the 2010 total postal traffic. Both domestic and cross-border items increased by 3.5% and 38.2%, respectively.
The postal market is worth 0.35 billion euros (1.45 billion RON), down by 2.3% compared to 2009.
The report on the 2010 Romanian postal market and the comparative analysis of the 2006 – 2010 postal traffic are available for consultation here.