26.07 Russia Post Fined $11,000 for Delivery Delays
MOSCOW, July 26 (RAPSI) The Moscow and Moscow Region arbitration courts have fined Russia's postal service Pochta Rossii (Russia Post) 360,000 rubles ($11,064) for failing to process airmail deliveries on time, the Prosecutor General's Office reported on Friday.
According to the Prosecutor General's Office statement, over 91 tons of unprocessed parcels and correspondence have accumulated at Moscows Domodedovo Airport.
Prosecutors also found that 189 tons of unprocessed parcels and correspondence was backed up at Moscows Sheremetyevo Airport, and over 38 tons of post at Vnukovo Airport, the capitals main business aviation hub.
The delayed mail should have been processed and sent off within 10 hours of arrival, prosecutors said.
The head of Pochta Rossiis main delivery department in Moscow was dismissed earlier this year after a backlog of hundreds of international parcels began stacking up at Moscow airports, a source in the company told RIA Novosti.
