Chương VI Luật bưu chính 2010: Hoạt động bưu chính công ích

Chapter VI

PUBLIC POSTAL ACTIVITIES

Article 31. Principles of public postal activities

1. Assuring the public provision of basic postal services of quality according to national technical regulations on post and at postage rates affordable for the people.

2. Gradually reducing according to a roadmap state subsidies for the provision of public postal services.

Article 32. Provision of public postal services

1. The State subsidizes the provision of public postal services by specifying the scope of exclusive postal services and formulating other support mechanisms.

2. The Prime Minister designates state postal enterprises to manage public postal networks and provide public postal services according to their tasks and plans assigned by the State.

3. Public postal service providers defined in Clause 2 of this Article shall provide exclusive postal services, including also services of delivering addressed letters with a single letter weighing up to 2 kilograms (kg) at a postage rate prescribed by law.

4. The scope of exclusive postal services shall be incrementally narrowed based on the postal development in each period under Clause 2, Article 44 of this Law.

Article 33. Rights and obligations of public postal service providers

In addition to the rights and obligations provided in Article 29 of this Law. public postal service providers have the following rights and obligations:

1. To establish nationwide public postal networks to provide postal services at home and abroad; to install public letter boxes for acceptance of basic letters;

2. To provide public postal services and perform other public tasks assigned by the State according to the list, scope, postage rates and national technical regulations decided by a competent state agency;

3. To elaborate and submit to a competent state agency plans on postage rates prescribed by the State:

4. To inspect, repair, maintain and protect works in public postal networks;

5. To use special-use vehicles running and parking in urban areas to provide public postal services under local competent state agencies' priority regulations applicable to these vehicles;

6. To refrain from using turnover from exclusive postal services to subsidize losses incurred from the provision of other competitive services at postage rates lower than costs;

7. To separately supervise public postal services and exclusive postal services and report results of provision of these services to the Ministry of Information and Communications;

8. To produce and supply Vietnamese postage stamps:

9. To effectively use public postal networks for providing financial, savings, money transfer, press distribution and other services under law;

10. To refrain from refusing to provide public postal services for service users that have satisfied all requirements on service use.

Article 34. Public postal networks

1. Public postal networks shall be built and developed under approved master plans. Service points of public postal networks shall be located in railway stations, car terminals, seaports, airports, border gates, population quarters and other public places to meet user needs.

2. Based on approved master plans on the development of public postal networks and land use master plans and plans, provincial-level People's Committees shall allocate land areas for the construction of works of public postal networks to serve the provision and use of public postal services.

3. When constructing new urban centers, densely populated areas, high-rise apartment buildings and office buildings, investors shall:

a/ Arrange convenient places for enterprises designated to provide public postal services to install systems of public letter boxes in urban centers or densely populated areas;

b/ Install consolidated letter boxes in high-rise apartment buildings and office buildings.

4. Units managing urban centers, densely populated areas, high-rise apartment stores and office buildings, which are commissioned before the effective date of this Law but in which there is no public or consolidated letter box, shall:

a/ Arrange convenient places for enterprises designated to provide public postal services to install systems of public letter boxes in urban centers or densely populated areas;

b/ Arrange convenient places for postal service users in high-rise apartment buildings and office buildings to install consolidated letter boxes.