Couriers chasing postmen. This is not the only problem of the Polish Post.

According to the latest figures from the Electronic Communications Authority, 895.9 million written items were accepted into circulation in 2022. This is an 8.2 percent decrease. compared to 2021, which in turn saw a decline of 7.5 percent from almost 15.5 percent a year earlier. Thus, one can speak of an unfavorable trend for Poczta Polska.

Poczta Polska ceases to be an important player

More problems. As Rzeczpospolita notes, the state-owned company has ceased to be a major player in the domestic KEP market (courier, express, parcel), but has become the locomotive of the postal market. , letter and courier delivery curves converged Last year, courier delivered 894 million parcels, just 2 million fewer than letter mail.

The newspaper notes that in terms of revenues received by companies from the KEP sector, Poczta Polska was only in sixth place. It is ahead of inPost, DPD, GLS, UPS and FedEx.

What about slot machines?

The problem for the state behemoth is still a meager network of parcel machines, i.e. the main weapon in the fight for the courier delivery market, which is growing year by year.

– In the Polish market, where automatic delivery is a popular and often preferred delivery method, it is difficult to predict success in conquering the CEP market without a large network of parcel machines – comments Marcin Susmanek, a member of the board of Alsendo, whose words are quoted by Rzeczpospolita. – As the example of the development of InPost in Poland shows, reaching the appropriate level of the number of cars is crucial in this strategy. he adds.

The company says it is “consistently transforming its logistics infrastructure from letter to parcel” and the number of parcels sent through it has increased in recent months, but did not provide details.