Marketplaces and Russian Post are discussing a possible alternative to infrastructure payment

Marketplaces and online stores offered Russian Post a “non-monetary” alternative to the infrastructure payment of 0.5% of turnover. The companies are discussing the possibility of providing the Post with orders for a comparable amount for the provision of services. We can talk about the transfer of part of long-distance deliveries to the Post or the right to use warehouses.

All these mechanisms are being discussed during August, a source familiar with the course of the consultations told Vedomosti. According to sources in two large marketplaces, these negotiations are ongoing, but not easy. Online stores and marketplaces are not satisfied with the very approach in which they can be obliged to pay a competitor, one of the interlocutors notes.