Post Boss Pölzl 3 Months prior to the Liberalization

People ♦ Published: October 1, 2010; 13:24 ♦ (Vindobona)

Post Boss Pölzl allegedly looks ahead with confidence to free competition, even for traditional letters.

Post Boss Pölzl 3 Months prior to the Liberalization / Picture: © Österreichische Post AG

Former Telekom manager Georg Pölzl has been boss of the Austrian Post for exactly one year. He is the last post boss allowed to manage a monopoly, because in three months there will be free competition, even in the realm of the traditional letter.

But he does not expect that on January 1, 2011, the first competitors will be queuing up in front of the letter boxes. "But in…