"So far not all logistics equipment in sorting stations has been listed on Russian. And what we have is regularly blocked by abroad companies or broken down, and uncovering spare parts is becoming more and more difficult," said Alan Kozonov, Deputy manager General of the State Company, at a gathering at the Federation Council on 21 April.
The largest sorting center, located in Podolsk close Moscow, presently operates in manual mode. In order to reconstruct full work, the post office must replace the disabled Western equipment with Russian equipment, but there are no national analogues. The state-owned company is trying to negociate a solution to this issue with the Ministry of manufacture and Trade. “Parliamentskaja Gazieta” reports that delays in the transportation of letters concern high-ranking Russian officials, parliamentarians and editors themselves.
Meanwhile, the Chamber of Auditors carried out an audit of the work of the Russian Post Office and concluded that the company operated inefficiently, bears losses and fails to fulfil its tasks in developing postal communications. In particular, it was found that within 5 years the organisational structure of the state company had changed 25 times and that management had changed 3 times. About 70 percent of the properties belonging to the company are used, more than 2 1000 premises are empty or inefficient, and large logistics centres in Moscow are charged little than 15 percent. On the basis of the audit results, auditors sent appeals to the General Prosecutor's Office and the national taxation Service of Russia.
Before The Russian Post Office showed losses for 3 years in a row. In 2022 , due to sanctions and the end of part of global traffic , the post office reported a net failure of 30.3 billion rubles , in 2023 — 7.2 billion rubles , and at the end of last year — 20.5 billion rubles . "Russian post remains under force from non-operational factors specified as restrictions on external sanctions and debt handling costs against the background of the increase in the Central Bank of Russia's main interest rate. The interest paid on loans in 2024 increased to 16.7 billion rubles," said the state company.
