Estonia: Eesti Post plans to raise postal fees by third in 2025

Estonia’s state-owned postal services provider, Eesti Post, which operates under the Omniva brand, plans to raise the price of universal postal services by a third as of 1 January 2025, ERR reports. If the Estonian Competition Authority (Konkurentsiamet) approves the rate hike, the postage price of a standard domestic letter will rise from current EUR 1.30 to EUR 1.70. The fee for package delivery would go up as well. Mart Mägi, board chairman of Eesti Post, noted that the company would still continue providing universal postal services at a loss. Universal postal services accounted for just EUR 12mn of Eesti Post’s total revenue of EUR 131mn in 2023. Planned legislative changes would allow the company to introduce cost-based pricing in 2026.