The Ukrposhta joint-stock company is complaining that Polish customs has been refusing to let their vehicles through for two months now.
Ukrposhta CEO Ihor Smilianskyi has reported this on his Facebook page, according to the Ukrainian News agency.
"For the past two months, Ukrposhta’s vehicles have been blocked by Polish customs, and we’ve been forced to detour Poland via Hungary and Slovakia (where we face no issues) and, in essence, have rerouted all our transit flows to bypass Poland,” Smilianskyi wrote.
He added that customers do not notice this because alternative routes through other countries have been established.
However, the Poles let Nova Poshta’s vehicles through because they carry express shipments rather than government postal documents.
Smilianskyi speculated that it was precisely this situation that prevented President Volodymyr Zelenskyy from sending the Order of the White Eagle to Polish President Karol Nawrocki via Ukrposhta.
That is why the President used Nova Poshta’s services.
The director of Ukrposhta also suggested that the Office of the President’s legal team had reviewed the matter and determined that sending state awards via Ukrposhta (specifically by regular mail, rather than through express carriers) is strictly prohibited by law and regulations.
Nova Poshta is not a postal service but an express delivery operator.
Delivery within Poland is handled by Poczta Polska, and there may have been doubts about whether they would deliver the items.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, on June 19, Polish President Karol Nawrocki announced the revocation of the Order of the White Eagle from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, an award previously bestowed upon him by former Polish President Andrzej Duda.
On June 20, Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that he had sent the Order of the White Eagle to Warsaw and noted that he had received this award in 2023 on behalf of the Ukrainian people and the Ukrainian army.
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