A study on the evolution of prices of priority and non-priority mail services provided by the CTT - Correios de Portugal, disclose that the average tariffs of priority and non-priority mail decreased, in real terms, 6 per cent in the last decade.
Between 1993 and 2003, the average price of non priority mail decreased, in real terms, 4,2 per cent, while priority mail prices registered an accented breaking of 25,2 per cent, in real terms as well, according to the study prepared by the National Authority of Communications (ANACOM).
In the related period, also the basic tariffs (tariffs of the standardised letters up to 20 grams), national and international, practised in the member countries of the European Union, in 2003, are compared. This comparative analysis indicates that, in Portugal, these tariffs are inferior to the average of the Fifteen: in the domestic service, they are 29 and 10 per cent below of the communitarian average, for non-priority and priority mail, respectively. In the international service, inferior values as 2,2 per cent (EU segment), 3,9 per cent (other European countries segment) and 10,7 per cent (rest of the world segment) were registered, in comparison with the remaining European State-members.
Consult:
- Evolution of Prices and International comparisons - Priority and Non-priority mail 2003 https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=925751
