Main points
- Meest POST has increased delivery rates across Ukraine due to rising costs, especially for fuel.
- The changes include an increase in basic tariffs by 10-20 hryvnias, but free return of parcels and a 10% discount when ordering via the mobile app are maintained.
Meest raises delivery rates across Ukraine / Meest Post
Meest POST announced a change in delivery rates across Ukraine due to increased logistics costs, including fuel. The new prices came into effect on April 20, 2026.
What are the new Meest tariffs?
The reason for the increase in the cost of tariffs is the increase in the price of key costs, primarily fuel, as well as maintenance of infrastructure, equipment, and partner services, Meest reported.
The changes affected the basic tariffs in Ukraine – on average, plus 10-20 hryvnias , depending on the weight and delivery method. That is, there was no sharp jump in prices for mass shipments.
The updated indicative prices look like this:
- Documents: 60 hryvnias within the city and 65 – 70 hryvnias between cities;
- Up to 2 kilograms: 60 hryvnias within the city and 75 – 80 hryvnias between cities;
- Up to 5 kilograms: 95 hryvnias within the city and 100 – 110 hryvnias between cities.
The company has also retained several important “bonuses” for customers:
- free return of parcels up to 30 kilograms if the recipient refuses;
- free packaging materials for certain types of shipments.
At the same time, the company has left another way to save: when placing a shipment via the mobile app, a 10% discount automatically applies. This partially compensates for the increase in tariffs and allows you to pay less even after the changes.
What is happening with the fuel market now?
Earlier, European Commissioner for Energy Dan Jorgensen said that EU countries should prepare for possible disruptions in energy supplies, the report reports.
Therefore, at the end of March this year, Europe began to consider the possibility of renewing measures regarding the energy crisis that were applied back in 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine on a full-scale scale and gas supplies from the country were significantly reduced.
Current proposals for addressing the situation caused by the war in Iran include limiting grid tariffs and taxes on electricity.
But energy expert Volodymyr Omelchenko, in a comment for Channel 24 , stated that in reality, there is no such thing as a deficit in a market economy. It only happens in the case of large-scale accidents, natural disasters, etc.
Volodymyr Omelchenko,
Director of Energy and Infrastructure Programs at the Razumkov Center
The thing is that when there is some reduction in the resource, prices increase. And therefore, consumption itself decreases. Thus, there is no shortage of diesel or gasoline in the EU. And it is reflected conditionally in the increase in price.
Energy expert Serhiy Kuyun expresses a similar opinion for Channel 24. He explains that it is not very appropriate to talk about fuel shortages and price increases right now, because in fact the cost has fallen.
- If initially oil cost approximately $100 per barrel, now it is $92 per barrel, which, accordingly, affects the cost of fuel.
- Despite this, oil is not very representative for us, because we don't buy it, says Kuyun. Here, it is worth paying more attention to the cost of petroleum products, such as diesel.
Serhiy Kuyun,
Director of Consulting Group A-95
If the exchange price for diesel fuel at its peak was conditionally $1,500 per ton, now we can conditionally say that it is already approximately $1,000. That is, the market has gone down, and quite seriously.
In addition, for a week now, purchase prices on the domestic market, i.e. the Ukrainian market, have been lower than retail prices by approximately 7-8 hryvnias per liter. Although before that, they had been higher than retail prices all month.
How have delivery rates increased at Ukrposhta and Nova Poshta?
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From April 13, 2026, Nova Poshta has increased the basic rates for parcel delivery due to rising costs and adaptation to economic conditions. For example, the cost of delivering documents across Ukraine now costs 80 hryvnias instead of 70, and parcels up to 2 kilograms – 90 hryvnias instead of 80.
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From April 1, Ukrposhta updated some of its parcel shipping rates. For the smallest parcels, prices have increased by 5 hryvnias, while some priority rates will remain unchanged. The most significant price increase will affect larger shipments and categories where the cost of delivery was the largest.