Correos will increase nationwide stamps by 7.9% and packages by 5.5% by 2026 | Economy | EUROtoday

Starting subsequent January 1, 2026, Correos will apply a 7.87% improve within the value of nationwide stamps and a 5.49% improve within the value of packages weighing lower than a kilo. This tariff overview for 2026, which impacts each strange and licensed letters and worldwide shipments, has already been validated by the National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC) after figuring out that it complies with present authorized rules.

Although these will increase exceed the three% year-on-year inflation recorded in November, the regulatory physique highlights that costs in Spain proceed to be among the many best in Europe, being under the typical of 1.23 euros adjusted for buying energy parity.

In the home market, postage for an strange letter of lower than 20 grams will price 0.96 euros, which represents a rise of seven cents in comparison with the earlier yr. This adjustment continues an upward development that started in 2015, when the stamp price 0.42 euros, chaining annual will increase since then which have ranged between 4% and 11%. On the opposite hand, the nationwide licensed letter of as much as 20 grams will probably be set at 5.74 euros (8.51% extra), whereas massive quantity packages – higher than 20 kilos – will attain a charge of 48.11 euros.

The tariff replace has an in depth affect internationally, particularly on shipments to Europe and Greenland. The strange worldwide letter of as much as 20 grams will price 2 euros, whereas the licensed sort will price 7.15 euros. It is necessary to notice that these worldwide charges apply to the European space, however the operator has expressly excluded from this group international locations corresponding to Albania, Armenia, Bosnia, Cyprus, Georgia, Malta, Moldova and Russia, that are ruled by totally different charges.

As for worldwide parcels of lower than 5 kilos, the worth will rise to 50.7 euros (7.42% extra) for a big group of strategic locations. This breakdown consists of the continent’s primary financial powers corresponding to Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands and Portugal, in addition to different markets corresponding to Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. The measure additionally impacts territories with particular regimes or smaller states, corresponding to Monaco, San Marino, Vatican City, Gibraltar, the Bay of Guernsey and the Island of Jersey, along with together with Ukraine on this pricing group.

At the identical time, the CNMC has reported that it’ll intensify surveillance of the particular charges that the general public operator provides to massive corporations and administrations. To do that, the long-term incremental prices (LRIC) commonplace will probably be integrated, a metric that considers the evolution of demand.

This system, added to the reporting of distributed historic prices, will enable the regulator to extra strictly supervise that the reductions utilized to massive company purchasers strictly modify to the working prices of the service to keep away from distortions within the postal market.