National Statistical Institute

„Short-term business statistics “ Department

Julia Georgieva

State expert

2, P.Volov Str. Sofia 1038, Bulgaria

[email protected]

+359 2 9857 194

The non-universal postal services cover the orders, carriages and deliveries of national and international post parcels, which are not part from the universal postal services. These services include transport, delivery, distribution, storage and processing of clients goods or correspondence.

Observed are national and international courier services, parcels over 10 up to 20 kg and telegrams.

National services - the sender and the addressee are on national territory.

International services - the sender and the addressee are in different countries.

Classification of Economic Activities (NACE.BG-2008) - Class 53.20 "Other postal and courier activities".

The Non-universal postal services include:

1. Receiving, transport and delivery of direct postal advertising;

2. Receiving of messages in physical or electronic form, their processing and delivery to the addressee as postal parcels or electronic messages;

3. Courier services;

4. Postal orders.

Courier service - is a postal service with an additional value above the universal postal service. It guaranties faster and safer receiving, transport and delivery of the parcels directly to the recipient and offers all or some of the following additional services:

· Collecting from the sender`s address;

· Delivery up to fix date;

· Possibility of changing the place for the delivery and the recipient;

· Informing the sender that the parcel is received;

· Possibility for supervision and tracking out the parcels;

· Personal services for the clients such as the service "a la carte" (by choice) in the necessary way and in the right time ("on demand" and "per contract").

The courier services include postal parcels like correspondence parcels (letters and/or post cards), printed issues (newspapers, periodicals, books, catalogues and other printed publications), small parcels up to 2 kg and courier services ?direct mail? (direct post advertising) up ti 1 kg and parcels up to 10 kg.

Parcels include national and international parcels from 10 to 20 kg of goods of commercial and non-commercial value. A parcel is a package post with defined dimensions and weight and contains different objects, materials and goods.

Telegrams include receiving and delivery of electronic or physical messages.

Data are collected annually from the Bulgarian postal providers, which perform non-universal postal services and have an issued individual license for such activity.

The survey is exhaustive.

For the Republic of Bulgaria.

Since 2006

Not applicable.

Thousand numbers

annual

· Postal service law OG, issue 64 from 04.08.2000 (last amended and supplemented, OG issue 61 from 25.07.2014);

· Order No 4 on postal services (OG, issue 97 from 1979, last amended and supplemented, issue 64 from 2000);

· Order no 6 from 20.11.2003 for the requirements of postal safety according to the Law on postal services and Law on electronic documents and signature;

· Directive 2008/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 February 2008 amending Directive 97/67/EC with regard to the full accomplishment of the internal market of Community postal services;

· Universal postal convention published in OG, issue 35 from 11.05.2010 (drawn up in Geneva on 12.08.2008 and ratified by law by the 41-National assembly on 11.03.2010, in force from 01.01.2010).

Not applicable.

Keeping the statistical secret by following the regulations for confidentiality of individual data according to Law on Statistics (Chapter VI "Protection of secrecy").

According to Art. 2 (5) from the Regulations for publishing statistical products and services of NSI (protecting individual data of one or more enterprises) the published information on the internet site of NSI is aggregated.

Data are published according to the deadlines set in the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute.

The calendar is available on the NSI website: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/480

Data are published on the internet site of NSI and can be accessed from all users of statistical information.

Annual

Not applicable.

· Statistical Yearbook;

· Statistical Reference Book.

Data on Non-universal postal services are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Domain statistics - Transport and Communications - Other annual data - Communications: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/7212

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Directive 2008/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 February 2008 amending Directive 97/67/EC with regard to the full accomplishment of the internal market of Community postal services.

Not available.

Quality checks and data validation are performed during the whole process of data collection. Checks for data completeness, arithmetic and logical controls of the primary data are made. The necessary corrections are made in cooperation with the respondents, if errors are identified.

Not available.

Main users are state institutions and enterprises from the observed sector.

No information.

All providers, which perform non-universal postal services (NACE.BG-2008 ? Class 53.20 ?Other postal and courier activities?.

The survey is exhaustive and data reflect accurately the conditions in the sector.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Data are annual and are published according to the deadlines set in the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute- 6 months after the reference period.

Data are published according to the deadlines set in the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute.

Data comparability is ensured at European level.

Data are available from 2006 without any breaks in the time series.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Cost and Burden are defined according to the National Statistical Programme for the reference year. The response burden is just one time per year.

According to the rules for data publishing revision of data can be made for past periods. Data revisions are based on changes of the primary data of the respondents.

Data revisions are based on changes of the primary data of the respondents.

Data are collected from the Bulgarian providers of non-universal postal services, which have an issued individual license for such activity (NACE.BG-2008 ? Class 53.20 Other postal and courier activities).

Annually

The survey is exhaustive.

Arithmetic and logical checks of the received data are made.

The data are handled in Excel.

Not applicable.