The cabinet will decide on Friday if the Dutch postal market for letters weighing under 50 grammes is to be entirely opened up to competition, news agency ANP reports.

Ministers have been reluctant to go ahead because new postal delivery firms pay their delivery workers on a piece-rate basis, rather than a regular wage.
But two firms, Sandd and Selekt Mail, have now made a deal with the unions which junior economic affairs minister Frank Heemskerk has described as ‘a positive step’.