The average weighted price change of the correspondence1, editorial mail 2 and parcel basket of services must not exceed, in 2015, CPI + 1.6%, in average nominal terms (paragraph 2 of article 8).
CPI means the inflation forecasted by the Government for 2015 and as such entered in the State Budget Report (paragraph 2 of article 2), that is, CPI = 0.7%.
This means that the average weighted price change of the correspondence, editorial mail and parcel basket of services must not exceed 2.3% (= 0.7 + 1.6%), in 2015.
The price proposal presented by CTT results in an overall average annual change by 2.3%, in compliance with the applicable maximum price change.
Table 1 presents a summary of price changes proposed by CTT, per service, destination and segment.
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One-off change on 01.03.2015 |
Average annual change in 2015 |
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CORRESPONDENCE |
NATIONAL SERVICE |
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Occasional |
Standard mail |
5.2% |
5.6% |
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Priority mail |
7.1% |
6.6% |
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Registered mail |
0.5% |
1.8% |
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Easy mail |
0.0% |
0.7% |
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Variation rate for the Occasional Segment |
3.2% |
3.8% |
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Contractual |
Standard mail |
3.0% |
3.6% |
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Priority mail |
6.3% |
5.3% |
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Registered mail |
-1.3% |
-0.6% |
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Easy mail |
0.0% |
0.8% |
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Variation rate for the Contractual Segment |
0.5% |
1.1% |
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CORRESPONDENCE |
INTERNATIONAL SERVICE |
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Occasional |
Standard mail (b) |
0.0% |
0.5% |
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Priority mail |
7.2% |
8.8% |
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Registered mail |
-2.0% |
-0.6% |
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Prime priority mail |
0.1% |
1.0% |
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Easy mail |
4.7% |
3.9% |
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Variation rate for the Occasional Segment |
0.2% |
1.1% |
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Contractual |
Standard mail (b) |
0.0% |
0.4% |
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Priority mail |
7.2% |
9.0% |
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Registered mail |
-3.8% |
-2.1% |
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Prime priority mail |
0.0% |
0.1% |
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Easy mail |
5.2% |
4.3% |
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Variation rate for the Contractual Segment |
0.5% |
1.5% |
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TOTAL - CORRESPONDENCE |
1.2% |
1.8% |
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INSURED MAIL (IM) |
0,0% |
1.0% |
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PARCELS |
NATIONAL SERVICE |
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National by land |
3.3% |
3.9% |
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National by air |
4.2% |
5.2% |
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INTERNATIONAL SERVICE |
2.4% |
2.2% |
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EDITORIAL MAIL (a) |
NATIONAL SERVICE |
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Subsidised system (books, newspapers and periodicals) |
14.9% |
12.1% |
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Non-subsidised system (editorial mail) |
0.0% |
2.9% |
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INTERNATIONAL SERVICE |
0.0% |
0.0% |
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OVERALL CHANGE |
1,8% |
2.3% |
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Source: CTT and ICP-ANACOM.
(a) Change on 01.06.2015.
(b) Includes the International Economic Mail service - Special Regime (items of correspondence for Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe).
Notes
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1Except for bulk mail, which is applied article 14-A of the Postal Law, and the postal summons and notifications service (postal services reserved to CTT), which are applied a specific maximum price change.
2 Editorial mail corresponds, in this scope, to offers made available by CTT for books, newspapers, periodicals and editorial mail, in the scope of the universal postal service. For reasons of simplification, the whole of these offers are referred to as “editorial mail”.
