“Until now, not all logistics equipment in the sorting plant has been replaced with Russian. And what we have is regularly blocked by foreign companies or broken, and finding spare parts is becoming more and more difficult,” said Alan Kozonow, deputy general director of the state -owned company, at a meeting at the Federation Council on April 21.
The largest sorting center, located in Podolsk near Moscow, is currently operating in manual mode. To restore full -fledged work, the post office must replace malignant western equipment with Russian equipment, but there is a lack of national analogues. The state -owned company is trying to negotiate a solution to this issue with the Ministry of Industry and Trade. “Parliamentskaya Gazieta” informs that delays in providing letters relate to high -ranking Russian officials, parliamentarians and the editorial office itself.
Meanwhile, the Accounting Chamber conducted an audit of the work of the Russian post and stated that the company is inefficiently operated, suffers losses and does not fulfill its tasks in the development of postal communication. In particular, it was found that within five years the organizational structure of a state -owned company changed 25 times, and the management – three times. About 70 percent real estate belonging to the company is used, over two thousand. premises are empty or inefficiently used, and large logistics centers in Moscow are charged in less than 15 percent. Based on the results of the audit, the auditors sent references to the Prosecutor's Office of the General and Federal Tax Service of Russia.
Before The Russian post showed losses for three years in a row. In 2022, due to the sanctions and the end of part of the international traffic, the post office recorded a net loss of 30.3 billion of rubles [1 mld 391 mln 869 tys. zł]in 2023 – 7.2 billion rubles [330 mln 741 tys. zł]and at the end of last year – 20.5 billion rubles [941 mln 976 tys. zł]. “Russian postal remains under pressure from inoperable factors, such as restrictions on external sanctions and debt service costs against the background of the growth of the main interest rate of the Central Bank of Russia. Interest paid from loans in 2024 increased to 16.7 billion rubles”, the state company said.
