The fourth quarter of last year was the best for postal services in the last three years, with the majority, or 91.6 percent, realized in domestic traffic.
At the end of last year, there were 22 providers of services in the postal market, among which the largest was HP-Croatian Post, with a share of 81 percent, which is a significant increase compared to the end of 2014 when the share of Croatian Post was close to 70 percent. At the same time, the share of all other postal providers decreased to 19.1 percent, down from 30.3 percent at the end of 2014.
In the postal services market, the fourth quarter of last year recorded a total of 89.7 million services, marking an increase of 3.4 percent compared to the same period in 2014, according to data from the Croatian Regulatory Authority for Network Activities (HAKOM). The fourth quarter of last year was the best for postal services in the last three years, with the majority, or 91.6 percent, realized in domestic traffic.
The largest share by type in the total number of postal services in the last quarter of last year was held by universal services at 57.2 percent, followed by other services at 28 percent and substitute postal services at 15 percent. By type of postal shipments, the highest proportion of the total number, 85 percent or 76.3 million, were letter shipments (registered and those with declared value, for the blind and direct), which is an increase of about 3 million services compared to the fourth quarter of 2014. The share of printed matter decreased from 11.2 to 10.5 percent to 9.4 million, while the share of packages slightly increased from 4.2 to 4.4 percent, to 4 million of that type of shipment in last year’s fourth quarter.
