Challenge. The Polish Post

Try to read this paragraph without letting your mind wander. Then, try to explain back to the person nearest to you what was written and why this is important. This, is my job. It's why I get paid the big bucks, Folks.

As a consequence, the current debate about the full accomplishment of the
internal market for postal services remains a very complex and diverse one
whereby many arguments building on the above mentioned 3 aspects are
bundled into a single “melting pot” which is then positioned to defend or
promote one or another point of view. Given these complexities, and the size
of the sector and the number of people whose lives are affected by this, the
impetus provided by the Commission to this project was to try to understand the
common ground that might lead to continued progress in European postal
markets. With this in mind, this project focused on the following main issues:
The sustainability of the postal universal service in each Member
State and the extent to which competition would contribute to this
sustainability in terms of service quality, end user prices, and changes
in the value proposition offered to various consumer segments;
1) The risks and opportunities that a full opening of the postal market
may give rise to, with regard to the elements mentioned just above, as
well as with respect to the impact on the USP;
2) The factors that will contribute to create a positive dynamic in the
market place between all actors (including users, Universal Service
Providers, regulatory authorities) so as to ensure that these
opportunities can be captured and risks are mitigated;
3)The mechanisms that will ensure a level playing field between the
incumbent PO and its competitors in national markets, since the
respective positions of the USP and New Entrants can be quite
asymmetric, both on the national as well as the European scale.


I am currently doing a project on the Polish Government and the Polish Post is one portion. I have been working on this project for about two weeks now and while I haven't actually accomplished more than maybe 3.5 solid hours of work on this, it has helped me to organize my closet, see what brown nail polish would look like, complete all the other duties in my job, clean my email inbox and allowed me the procrastinating time needed to become a technical computer genius that fixed my itunes7 issues. Oh. And I also watched Season 1 of the Office today before I didn't prepare for this conference call that I run.

I feel like I want to have a contest or something for maybe the most boring- No, most boring is too boring. Perhaps the most mundane, driest piece of crap project that was ever done. I think maybe an analysis on the Polish government's readiness for a Free Market Opening of the European Postal organization might be pretty high up there. Did I mention I also need to udnerstand their pension process and Health Care? Yeah, it's true. Let me tell you- it sucks. I mean the Polish pension and health care sucks. The best advice I can think of if you are Polish is to either not get sick or just die before you retire. It's not worth it, trust me. Oh- and don't mail anything either because seriously stamps are like the most expensive in all of Europe and it doens't even guarantee that the letter arrives on time or at all. You might say a Free Market Opening is just what the market needs, but a quick Barriers to Entry analysis shows that this really isn't a good idea at all. Too soon. There's still a lot of communist residue. The Polish Post is some hard mutherfuckers and if you try to come in there with alternative mail options they will break your knees, if you are lucky.