The above information was shared by Mr. La Hoang Trung - Director of the Postal Department (Ministry of Science and Technology) - at the policy communication conference for the draft Law on Posts (amended) organized by the Ministry of Science and Technology on the morning of August 18, in Hanoi.
According to Mr. La Hoang Trung, the development reality of the postal sector is posing a requirement to review and amend many current legal regulations. The scope of regulation of the Postal Law has not kept up with the rapid development of this sector.
One of the notable changes is that the market size has increased sharply in the past decade. In 2025, postal output reached about 4.1 billion parcels, an increase of more than 12 times compared to 2010. Postal service revenue reached about 87,000 billion VND.
Notably, more than 90% of the current postal output is packages and packages of goods. This shows that postal activities have had a major change, closely linked to the development of e-commerce and the demand for freight transportation.
Many regulations are no longer appropriate
According to the Director of the Posts Department, rapid changes in the market have revealed limitations and inadequacies in some provisions of the current Posts Law.
First, the scope of regulation of the law has not kept up with the development of the postal sector in practice.
Second, regulations on public postal services and mechanisms to support the provision of public postal services are no longer suitable for development practices.
Third, regulations on the management of postal enterprises have not met the requirements for developing postal services into an essential infrastructure of the nation.
Fourth, regulations on licensing postal operations are not consistent with the requirements of administrative procedure reform, decentralization, delegation of power and innovation of management methods.
Fifth, regulations related to digital transformation, postal data, ensuring safety, security and applying new technologies in the postal sector have not kept up with the development reality of the market.
These limitations set the requirement to improve the legal corridor to manage the postal sector in accordance with the scale and new operating methods of the market.
In the context of postal services increasingly associated with e-commerce, logistics, data and digital infrastructure, the amendment of the Postal Law is expected to create a more appropriate legal basis for business development, while improving the efficiency of state management in this field.
