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1,000 La Poste agencies will open on Saturdays in rural areas

In Europe 1, La Poste group CEO Nathalie Collin announced the opening of 1,000 post offices in rural areas on Saturdays over the next 18 months.

Boosting rural areas to improve the daily lives of their inhabitants. This is the aim of the “France Ruralités” plan to be presented on Thursday by Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne. And La Poste says it is ready to contribute: “We are candidates to participate because we are the largest network in rural areas,” Nathalie Collin, deputy general manager of the La Poste group, in charge of consumer and consumer, told Europe 1 on Wednesday. the digital branch.

“We have started to do it,” he continued, announcing that “1,000 existing post offices” will now open on Saturdays in rural areas, where until now they were closed. These openings should be done gradually over the next 18 months.

La Poste “has a strategic desire” to “not only stay in the territories but invest there, it is very important,” said Nathalie Collin, who considered that “the French are very attached to the proximity of their post.”

A plan of 800 million euros

This decision to open post offices in rural areas on Saturdays is part of an investment plan of 800 million euros between 2022 and 2025.

An endowment that will serve to transform and modernize the group’s distribution network, but also to “expand its territorial presence” and “diversify its local network” with the aim of going from 35,000 to 40,000 service points in two years. 2400 people must also be recruited.

Author: Paul-Louis
Source: BFM TV

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