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•-..-.--- -•------• - -- - D UNIVERSAL .. POSTAL %- D UNION International Bureau To: Governmental bodies overseeng Weltpoststrasse postal affairs P0. Box 312 3000 BERNE 15 For information to: SWITZERLAND Restricted unions T+41 313503111 F +41 31 3503110 www.upu.int Contact: Mr Lukasz Piotrowski Berne, 19 May 2022 T +41 31 350 33 63 [email protected] Reference: 0426(DIRCAB.STRAT)1 035 Subject: Postal statistics 2021 Questionnaire for governmental bodies overseeing postal affairs — Dear SirlMadam, 1 have pleasure in enclosing the new questionnaire designed to obtain a global overview of the postal market for 2021 (Annex 1). The data is compiled with a viewto publishing the Postal Statistics yearbook, as stated in article VIII (Statistical services) of the Agreement between the United Nations and the Universal Postal Union. 1 strongty encourage you to cooperate in the field of postal statistics and to participate in the present survey. This wiII allow us to maintain a solid base of statistical information and to establish reliable and relevant indicators to better under stand current postal sector trends. You can access the electronic version of the questionnaire in six languages on the UPU website at www. upu. intlen/U n iversal-Postal-U nion/Activities/Research-Pu blications/Postal-Statistics. We remain at your disposal to provide further clarification regarding the headings and definitions. 1 invite you to contact the UPU Research and Strategy Programme if you have any questions or comments (contact details provided in the annex). We would like to remind you that member countries are allowed to declare data provided for certain headings as confidential. This means that the data wiII be used only as part of regional aggregates and estimations but wiII not be published in the yearbook or on the UPU web page. We would greatly appreciate it if you could complete this questionnaire with the most recent and accurate information and return it, preferably by e-mail, to the International Bureau by 30 June 2022 at the Iatest. Many thanks in advance for your valuable cooperation. Yours faithfully, MMA4DUS- JA K0MMUNn(ATSI00N$lMNISTEERlUM 21. 05. 2022 Director General Nr.iO47  D UNIVERSAL Annex 1 to letterO426(DIRCAB.STRAT)1035 $74’q 0.. POSTAL of 19 May 2022 D UNION Postal statistics 2021 Questionnaire B — Governmental bodies responsible for overseeing postal affairs We kindly ask you to complete this questionnaire and return it to us as soon as possible, but by 30 June 2022 at the Iatest. Please use the following address for the return of the questionnaire, or for any queries: Research and Strategy Programme UPU International Bureau Weltpoststrasse 4 3015 BERNE SWITZERLAND Tel: +41 31 350 33 63 Fax: +41 31 350 3110 E-mail: [email protected] Organization Fuil name Ms Mr Position/title Address Tel. Fax E-mail Date Signature  2 Introduction Each year, member countries provide the UPU International Bureau with postal statistics data. This data, which relates to the activities of designated operators, is pubiished annually in the Postal Statistics yearbook, and is accessible through the U PU website at www. upu. ntlen/Universal-Postai-Union/Activities/Research Publications/Postal-Statistics. it forms the basis of giobal and regional analyses carried out by the International Bureau in the postal development field. From 2015, the UPU Council ofAdministration decided to coiiectannually basic data on the entire letter, parcei and express delivery market. This questionnaire is therefore addressed to the governmental bodies responsi ble for overseeing the postal affairs of member countries. lts aim is to make avaiiabie data that will provide an overview of the entire postal and express delivery sector, both at national level and woridwide. The entire letter, parcel and express delivery market in a Country Consists of: — the designated operator (UPU Convention, artiCie 2), which also has the obiigation to provide a universal serviCe; — other operators that do not have this obiigation. The aggregate data for ali the operators that exist in the Country (headings 901, 910, 920, 921, 922) will be published for eaCh Country individually in the Postal StatistiCs yearbook. To heip maintain the quaiity of the postal statistiCs database, you are asked to: — Complete ali the sections of the questionnaire as Carefully as possible; — suppiy ali the data you Can, in order to minimize the amount of missing data; — give the reason for any data not being supplied by using the Codes ND (data not available), NG (negii gible amount) or 0 (quantity nil). Definitions To make the data consistent with that suppiied by designated operators and to make the questionnaire easier to understand, the following definitions are provided. Please read the definitions Carefully before answering eaCh question. if your data is not defined in the same way, piease provide us with the definitions you use. — Governmental bodies responsible for overseeing postai affairs: the entities responsible for overseeing postal affairs (artiCle 2 of the Convention). — Number of staff: staff means ali employees performing their funCtions, inCluding part-time staff, i.e. employees working for iess than the normai number of working hours each week. — LiCensed, authorized or deClared operator: operator whiCh provides letter, parCel and express delivery serviCes, but whiCh is not neCessarily responsible for providing universal serviCes or fulfiliing the obiiga tions arising from the UPU ACts. — Letter post: letter-post items essentially Consist of Ietters, postCards, printed papers (newspapers, peri odiCals, advertising, etC.), small paCkets, items for the blind and, as appliCable in the domestiC service, CommerCial papers or sampies of merChandise; items should not exCeed 2 kg in weight. — ParCels: non-express items Containing mainly goods. ParCeis inCluded should not exCeed 50 kg. — Express items: items Containing CorrespondenCe, doCuments and goods whiCh are proCessed in the most rapid way. Again, the items inCluded shouid not exCeed 50 kg.  3 Please read the definitions carefully when completing the questionnaire Letter, parcel and express dehvery operators Please indicate the number of licensed, authorized or declared operators (including the designated operator). Number 901 Number of licensed, authorized or declared operators Staff of letter, parcel and express delivery operators Please indicate the number of staff employed by ali the licensed, authorized or declared operators. lf the exact figures are not available, please provide estimates. Numberofstaff 910 Number of staff (at 31 December) Letter, parcel and express delivery market: traffic Please indicate the number of items processed by ali licensed, authorized or declared operators. lf the exact figures are not available, please provide estimates. Letter delivery services Number of items 920 Domestic service and international outbound Parcel delivery services Number of items 921 Domestic service and international outbound Express delivery services Number of items 922 Domestic service and international outbound  4 Period of reference Please indicate the period to which the statistical data relates: Start date: (day/month/year) End date: (day/month/year) Additional comments Thank you for taking the time to complete this questionnaire.