Russian Post has suspended ground delivery to 23 European countries

Russian Post has stopped ground delivery, that is, by road and rail, to 23 European countries, according to the company’s website. the first to draw attention to this RBC was .

The list of countries included Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, France, Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland and Sweden. Opposite each country, the Russian Post materials say: “Delivery by air. Ground delivery is temporarily suspended."

RBC wrote that Estonia was also included in the list, but at the time of publication of this note, Mail documents stated that ground delivery to Estonia was possible.

One of RBC's sources in the market reported that the restrictions are due to the fact that the subsidiary of Russian Post in Germany did not have time to renew contracts for arranging delivery by road and rail transport.

The company’s press service stated that “bureaucratic difficulties” occurred when arranging land cross-border transportation in the European direction, and the difficulties were temporary—ground delivery would resume in the next two months.

Pochta added that air delivery is proceeding as usual.

• After the start of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine, official postal exchange between Russia and Poland, Finland, as well as Ukraine, Australia and New Zealand was stopped.