Monitoring for cross subsidy

The Postal Services Legislation Amendment Act 2004 introduced measures that allow the ACCC to require Australia Post to keep records and to provide those records to the ACCC. For more information, see Record keeping rules for Australia Post.

One of the purposes of introducing the record keeping rule powers was to address allegations raised by some competitors of Australia Post that it is unfairly competing by using revenue from its reserved services to cross-subsidise the services it provides in competition with other businesses.

Each year the ACCC issues a report of its analysis of Australia Post's regulatory accounts for the preceding year, to determine whether Australia Post has used revenue from its reserved services to cross-subsidise its non-reserved services. (Reserved services are services for which Australia Post has a statutory monopoly; non-reserved services are services it provides in competition with other businesses.)

The most recent report appears in the Key publications panel on this page, while older reports appear below. They should be read in conjunction with the ACCC’s principles for the disclosure of information it receives under the record-keeping rules.