The PUG is an alliance of 15 European associations including Fedma and the European Marketing Confederation.
It has issued a manifesto on the main interests of businesses using postal services in an attempt to influence the future of EU postal policy.
The manifesto, writen by vice-chairman of PUG Dr Tim Walsh, demands more effective regulation for the postal sector based on clear rules rather than reactions to problems after they have occured.
"Where the motives of regulation become obscured the consequences for posts [postal services] and the wider industry are harmful," Walsh said.
The manifesto claims that only modernisation can protect jobs across the sector and calls for universal service providers, which include Royal Mail and Germany's Deutsche Post, to be given greater flexibility in respect of universal service obligations and pricing.
The manifesto appeals to the EC to consider five business sectors which are linked to postal delivery services: data services, media services, print and production, mail and document services and customer response management.
It also asks all these sectors to improve understanding of their shared interests irrespective of their precise positions across the mail services value chain.
PUG's estimates of the value of all these sectors in the UK letter mail market were as follows:
Data services 拢1.045bn
Media services 拢1.640bn
Print and production 拢1.640bn
Mail and document services 拢950m
Physical mail distribution 拢5.230bn
Customer response management 拢625m
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