MAGYAR POSTA DEVELOPS ITS NETWORK WITH NEW VEHICLES AND PREPARES FOR SURGE IN PARCEL VOLUMES

“Magyar Posta has successfully transformed its operations over the last one and a half years through an effectively implemented action plan founded on a well-defined concept. The international award received in Bern last week is a clear indication of the success of this transformation. This distinction recognised that Magyar Posta was one of the fastest developing postal operators in the world over the last year and, judged by international standards, has clearly become the most successful postal operator in Central Europe,” Dr Barnabás Balczó, Chief Executive Officer of Magyar Posta, emphasised at the Company’s winter season opening press conference. Part of this success process is the development of the mobile post network, which has now been expanded with 50 new Volkswagen Caddy vans.

15 October 2024

Magyar Posta’s clear response to the world’s digitalisation changes has been to reorganise and restructure the organisation with a view to making the Company self-sustaining and to ensuring that Hungarian taxpayers do not have to contribute to the Company’s costs in either the short or the medium term.

This has meant that the Company has faced major strategic restructuring challenges over the last one and a half years. Some of these have already been resolved while others are still being addressed. This work has been recognised by the award of the Universal Postal Union, the largest international postal organisation, which ranks the national postal operator of each country based on international standards. This distinction is recognition that Magyar Posta is the fastest developing postal operator in the world and clearly the most successful in Central Europe.

In transforming its operations, Magyar Posta seeks to ensure that consumers experience no change in the quality of service, but, wherever possible, only feel the benefits. To this end, the Company established its post partner programme, which by the close of the year will involve 850 business and municipal partners providing postal services, thereby maintaining full coverage and ensuring the availability of the service throughout Hungary. Furthermore, Magyar Posta’s mobile post network, a service provided in Western Europe which is already functioning well here, is being extended to small villages with a few hundred inhabitants where there is no municipal or business partner. This has been made possible through the purchase of 50 new vans from Porsche Hungaria.

At the press conference, it was said that digitalisation is both an opportunity and a challenge for logistics service providers, including Magyar Posta. With the dynamic growth of online shopping, Magyar Posta has delivered about 10 million more parcels in the last two years. To cope with the rapid increase in the volume of parcels, the Company is building a new central parcel logistics plant in Ecser. The facility, which will be able to process some 30,000 parcels per hour, is due to be completed by early 2026.

Magyar Posta will do its utmost to ensure that Hungary has a self-sustaining, state-owned postal service provider having its own capacity which can be present in foreign markets and which, by virtue of its national network, is able to provide citizens with access to high-quality services meeting 21st-century expectations and perform essential public services, such as parcel and letter-mail delivery, in all circumstances.

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