ZPP: official e-Delivery costs PLN 5.30, private providers charge PLN 1-2
From 1 October, all sole proprietors in CEIDG must have an address for e-Deliveries. The Polish Entrepreneurs and Employers Association calculates that for sending official correspondence in this system, the administration pays several times more than the market rate.
The Polish Entrepreneurs and Employers Association (ZPP) said in a position described by My Company Polska (opens in a new tab) and ITwiz (opens in a new tab) how much public entities pay for the public service of registered electronic delivery (PURDE), the digital equivalent of a registered letter. The rate is PLN 5.30 net per shipment. Private qualified providers charge PLN 1 to 2 for such a service. Offices, municipalities, and courts cannot use them, however, because the regulations direct them exclusively to the designated operator, Poczta Polska.
The price is set by a regulation of the Minister of State Assets and the Minister of Digital Affairs of 31 August 2021. The fee for PURDE may amount to no more than 45 percent of the price of the cheapest registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt. When a paper letter becomes more expensive, an electronic delivery becomes more expensive too. According to ZPP, since 2021 the rate has increased by about 41 percent, from PLN 3.75 to PLN 5.30 net, although in August the number of processed e-Deliveries exceeded 100 million. The association estimates that with 50 million paid public shipments annually, the administration overpays by about PLN 210 million compared with market prices.
When announcing the increase in October 2024, Poczta Polska explained the price rise by, among other things, the higher minimum wage, inflation, and the costs of branches that it must maintain as the designated operator, as reported by the Prawo.pl service. Media outlets covering the matter do not cite responses from the company or the ministries to this year's ZPP position.
ZPP wants the regulation changed before Monday, 5 October, when the new annual pricing cycle begins. As Michał Błaszczak, an analyst at ZPP's Law and Legislation Department, says, the methodology can be changed quickly because “this does not require an amendment to the act, only an amendment to the regulation.” Ultimately, the association calls for allowing private providers to serve public offices and for equal access to the Electronic Address Database, the National Node, and the KRS, CEIDG, REGON, and PESEL registers.
For companies, the e-Delivery address itself is free, and the dispute concerns money spent by public offices and local governments. The system is growing quickly: in May 2026, more than 4 million addresses were active, and from 1 October the obligation was extended to sole proprietors in CEIDG who had not had such an address before. Without it, they cannot, among other things, change data in their CEIDG entry.