Poczta Polska's monopoly on delivering letters is broken

The decision of the Supreme Administrative Court (NSA) closed a thee-year long trial in which courier company UPS was demanding the right to deliver correspondence. UPS was denied that possibility three years ago when the Telecommunication and Post Regulation Office (URTiP) classified some of UPS parcels as letters and decided that this meant that UPS was breaching the law, which gave Poczta Polska a monopoly on delivering such mail. UPS won the trial because it argued that the law allowed for rendering such services as long as it was on the basis of a signed contract between parties and not as a general public service. (Puls Biznesu pp. 1, 4) M.G.