Bulgaria's postal market earned about €507m (992m leva) in 2025, up 4.5% on a year earlier, according to the annual report of the Communications Regulation Commission (CRC). Parliament's transport and communications committee approved the report, which CRC chairman Ivan Dimitrov presented.

The growth came from courier parcels, which are rising with online shopping. Ordinary letters and money transfers are losing share.

Operators handled 239m items, 9.4% more than in 2024. At 31 December 2025, 218 operators were registered, but only 87 actually worked.

Courier items of up to 1 kg grew fastest, to 76.8m, a rise of 72% in a year. They make up more than half of the letter-post segment, which totals 143.9m items, up 24.1%.

Hybrid mail is second in the segment with 45.4m items, but it fell by 8.4%. The report says government offices and businesses are switching more and more to digital documents. Only 13% of letter-post items are traditional letters.

Courier items of 1 to 32 kg total 73.5m, and the report says their number is directly tied to e-commerce. By revenue, parcels come first, followed by letters and money transfers. Revenue from postal money transfers is slightly lower, at €10.53m (20.6m leva). The report links this to changes in how people pay.

The universal postal service holds a shrinking share of the market. It is of general economic interest, and Bulgarian Posts provides it by law and covers the whole country. Parcels in the service fell to 0.7m, down 31.1%.

Domestic items in the universal service fell from 17.1m to 16.7m, or by about 2.3%. Revenue from them, however, rose by about 17.8%, from €9.87m (19.3m leva) to €11.61m (22.7m leva). For letters, Bulgarian Posts earns 99.4% of universal service revenue.

The CRC says the company's net costs for the service in 2024 were an unfair financial burden on it. In that case, the state budget can cover the losses. The report accepts that the compensation is needed and is not overcompensation, because it does not exceed the established net costs.

Work on a postcode register continued in 2025. The current four-digit code stays, and each addressable site will get a unique identifier on top of it. Postal operators, government offices, businesses and citizens will use the system.

Dimitrov said the register has passed the planned testing stages and is now open for public consultation. It is expected to make addresses more accurate and deliveries easier.

After the consultation and a review of the comments, the CRC will give the system its final approval. The Council of Ministers must then adopt the regulation for it.