Judge bars abusive adjustment by Correios for e-commerce companies

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Because he saw abuse by Correios, federal judge Leonardo Safi de Melo, from the 21st Federal Civil Court of São Paulo, barred adjustments above 8% to provide delivery services via Sedex for e-commerce companies. He responded to the request of companies associated with the Brazilian Electronic Commerce Association. The state-owned company may be fined R$50,000 per day if it fails to comply with the injunction. The decision also applies to the adjustment of the PAC, a non-express service for sending goods.


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Rising prices for deliveries to e-commerce companies were abusive, says federal judge.
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The entity claims that the increase, announced on April 6, harms e-commerce operations carried out by its members, as most companies in the sector depend on the Post Office to deliver goods purchased by the consuming public.

“The increase B2B Lead reported by Correios, initially, of 8% in the price of the aforementioned delivery services does not reflect reality, reaching the level of 50%, for larger journeys across the national territory, according to documents uploaded to the file so far”, said the magistrate, remembering that the adjustment was above inflation.

According to one of the companies, a PAC freight from Joinville (SC) to Fortaleza (CE), for example, goes from R$54.02 to R$81.51, an adjustment of 50.89%. If you go from São Paulo (SP) to Brasília (DF), the value increases from R$ 14.10 to R$ 15.23, an increase of 8%. In the decision, the judge also cites the Consumer Protection Code, which prohibits increases in the price of services without just cause.

The entity also asked for the suspension of the R$20 fee for forwarding correspondence in non-square format, which was denied by the judge. “It does not seem reasonable to transfer the burden of packaging orders to the Post Office at no cost, given the need for greater use of labor and inputs by the defendant, to properly route the goods to their destinations.”



There was also a request to suspend the R$3 fee for transporting goods in locations classified as “risk areas”. In this case, the magistrate understood that the Federal Court of Rio de Janeiro is competent to analyze the request, since an action with the same content is already being processed there, in order to avoid the possibility of the fee being applied unequally by different regions of the territory. Brazilian. With information from the TRF-3 Press Office.