Introduction

At its basis, CSC is a capitalist economic system with Swiss-style democratic governance and sovereignty safeguards. It's no secret that the primary objective of most companies is to make as much profit as possible, and though this isn't inherently problematic and we encourage this drive, this comes at a disproportionate cost in terms of product/service quality and customer service, which we find unacceptable. The root of the problem lies in the overmaterialistic tendencies that big foreign companies try to force upon Swiss society which is counterproductive to the environment, public health and consumer finances

It is our firm conviction that a Swiss-run company would be more capable of combining the natural drive for profit with the insight necessary to realise the indirectly quantifiable benefits of a more responsible society. For this we look at Swiss Post, one of the crown jewels of the Swiss public enterprises and perhaps one of the best-run postal companies in Europe.

Let us first make a few brief comparisons between Swiss Post and PostNL, its Dutch equivalent:

Swiss Post:

• government-owned
• entirely self-funded
• pays CHF 50 million in dividends to the government
• 2'500 service points
• revenue of CHF 7,6 billion in 2024
• net profit of CHF 324 million in 2024

PostNL:

• privatised
• requested CHF 65,6 million total in subsidies for the years 2025 and 2026
• paid out CHF 33,8 million in dividends to shareholders
• 3'500 service points
• revenue of CHF 3,18 billion in 2024
• net profit of CHF 18 million in 2024

Quite obviously, these are not glamouring numbers for proponents of privatisation at least in terms of postal services. So let us make another comparison between SBB and NS, the public train companies of Switzerland and the Netherlands respectively:

SBB:

• government-owned
• entirely self-funded
• 1,32 million passengers per day in 2023
• revenue of CHF 11,4 billion in 2024
• net profit of CHF 276 million in 2024

NS:

• privatised with the state as the sole shareholder
• mostly self-funded, received CHF 115,7 million in 2024 to delay a 12% price increase
• 1,1 million passengers per day in 2023
• revenue of CHF 3,57 billion in 2024
• net loss of CHF 136 million in 2024

Once more, the figures are not very pretty on the privatisation side. Although it is true that NS is still 100% government owned and thus technically still a state-owned company, there is another aspect that is diminishing its results. That is competition from foreign companies such as Arriva (owned by Deutsche Bahn) and Keolis (owned by SNCF). Furthermore, as of 2025 the European Commission is taking action against the Netherlands because of NS' national rail monopoly in the Netherlands, which the EC deems as illegal. Switzerland does not have this issue and keeps its public transport tightly controlled through the SBB with the exception of a few other players such as Swiss Post, ZVV and SZU, all of which are owned by the federal or local governments. Simply put, the only interaction with a foreign company a Swiss traveller may face is on an international train to neighbouring countries (which are famously bad).