Eight years after the Postal Act came into force, there is still no level playing field or effective competition in the postal markets. The actual objective of the Postal Act had therefore still not been achieved by 2005. Whilst a large number of licence holders are active on the German letter market as a whole, in terms of turnover they account for only a 6.9% market share. Even in the already liberalised part of the letter market, the market share of Deutsche Post AG’s competitors amounts to merely 16.8 per cent. Deutsche Post AG’s dominant market position therefore remains unchanged.