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The Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications (BIPT) approved an increase of 7.44% on average by bpost, from January 1, 2019, its rates for letters and standard packages, announced Wednesday the regulator of the sector telecoms.
This substantial increase in tariffs concerns postal services known as the "small user basket", ie standard letters and packages for individuals and small businesses.
These tariffs mark the return to "prior" stamps, with distribution of the mail the next working day, and "non-prior", with distribution within three working days maximum; a distinction that had been removed in early 2007.
"For the prior stamp, the change from the unit tariff to 1 euro represents an increase of 14.9% compared to 2018 and 26.6% compared to 2017, the year in which BIPT refused the increase in prices requested by Bpost (under the old postal law). The new non-prior stamp will be, with a unit price of 0.95 euro, marketed at a price higher than the current stamp prior (0.87 euro) ", says the regulator, which calculated that compared to 2017 In 2019, small users will pay an additional cost in the range of 50 to 100 million euros for the services offered by bpost.
BIPT considers that these tariff increases may not be compatible with the principle of cost orientation as applied in its 2017 tariff decision. But with the new postal law, BIPT can no longer really control the principle of cost orientation, stresses the Institute.
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