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The new year will bring a radical overhaul in the national post service provided by Eesti Post/Omniva. The changes will include far more automation than previously was the case, with parcel vending machines increasingly replacing post offices. At the same time, human couriers will be available to-order, to replace post boxes.
The state is to more than double support for the delivery of newspapers, magazines and periodicals in remote areas next year, boosting it by €2.75 million and bringing the total subsidy to €4.528 million.
The current organization of the state postal service is unnecessarily costly and unprofitable and should be updated, the National Audit Office (Riigikontroll) finds.
Sunday political talk shows on ERR radio channels discussed rapid economic growth and salary advance, as well as the state of the pandemic in Estonia in light of the new Omicron coronavirus variant.
The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications is planning to relax universal mail service requirements. Should the regulation be changed, it will allow national mail carrier Eesti Post to optimize its unprofitable mail business by, among other measures, closing post offices.