The adoption of a bill on postal services as it is now would put the development of the express delivery and e-commerce markets under a threat, co-owner of the Nova Poshta Group Volodymyr Popereshniuk has said.

"The reaction of the market to the bill was the reason why it was sent for revision. We and the rest market participants expressed clearly our position in November 2016 at a roundtable where neither the Infrastructure Ministry nor the NCCR [National Commission for Communications and Informatization Regulation] took part. The recent statement of the minister that the bill is not a priority of the ministry is interesting. It is obvious that they are involved in other, more important as they believe transport segments," he said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.

Asked about the non-implementation of social functions by private companies which for example Ukrposhta fulfills Popereshniuk said that Nova Poshta paid UAH 1 billion of taxes and duties in 2016.

"This is our contribution to the national budget. Our social function is to provide high-quality services and be an honest taxpayer. If there are functions the state wants to offer to private business, we are ready to consider the proposals. For example, pension payments should be proposed to banks, not us. Post offices all over the world carried money in mail coaches at the beginning of the last century. Now this is the area where financial institutions operate," he said.

Representatives of the postal logistics, express delivery market players and state-owned postal operator Ukrposhta several times expressed discontent with ignoring their positions and remarks when the bill was drawn up.

In December 2016 the Infrastructure Ministry decided to create a working group to revise the document.

Early February 2017 Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan said that the bill regulating the postal services is not among the top priorities of the ministry.