6 milliárd Ft to keep a declining postal monopoly on routes the market would price honestly

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This line compensates Magyar Posta, as the designated universal postal service provider, for the "unfair excess burden" of the universal-service obligation — the net cost of being required to deliver to every address in the country, including unprofitable rural routes. Under the postal-services framework, where the net cost of the universal service exceeds 1% of the provider's universal-service-related costs, that excess is the "unfair excess burden", and the central budget may compensate it up to an annual ceiling of 15 million euro.[^6] The mechanism deserves a careful reading rather than reflexive classification. A genuine, narrowly drawn obligation to maintain basic postal access to remote addresses, compensated at audited net cost, is not the same kind of line as a discretionary business-development pot — there is a real service obligation imposed by statute and a real, measurable excess cost. But the obligation itself is a policy choice, not a fixed fact: postal services are a competitive industry, the universal-service scope is set by statute and is amendable, and the trend across the activity is structural decline in letter volumes as communication moves to digital channels. The honest classification is a phase-out tied to a statutory review that narrows the universal-service obligation to a genuinely minimal access guarantee and reconsiders whether the residual cost is better addressed by allowing the provider to price and structure the service competitively. A five-year horizon allows the statutory review and the contractual universal-service agreement to be revisited at their next cycle rather than abrogated mid-term. Where a genuinely minimal access obligation survives the review, a small residual compensation may be defensible — but at audited net cost of a narrowly defined obligation, not the current envelope.