La Poste has no intention of ending mail delivery everywhere six days a week, which is required by law, the management said on Friday, denying the media reports. “We do not question at all the principle of the postman’s daily passage,” Philippe Dorge, deputy general manager responsible for the Services-Mail-Packages branch, told AFP. “The organization of the tours is maintained, with the postman in charge,” and “it will go well every day for his entire district six days a week,” he added.
“It is important for us to maintain this organization”, in any case imposed on the universal postal service -the guaranteed services- provided for by law, the official insisted. “We must not confuse the service provided to the client and the way in which we organize ourselves to provide it,” said Philippe Dorge.
Faced with a spectacular drop in the volumes of mail transported, La Poste has just renewed its postage offer with, in particular, the end of the red stamp, for mail delivered the next day (on D+1). It must be adapted, with “local fixes”, according to him. Experiments are planned, echoed by Franceinfo on Friday.
Always a delivery 6 days a week.
“There will always be distribution six days a week. Instead, the tour will be organized differently,” Sylvie Figuière, federal secretary of the CFDT, told AFP. A postman today has a fixed route and will go everywhere, whether there is mail to deliver or not. “Tomorrow it will no longer be like this. If there is nothing, it will not happen on the street,” she said.
Postmen must first classify their mail according to the urgency of the distribution, with the aim of “fulfilling the customer’s promise” with a 95% quality of service in the delivery of the envelope, according to her. Clients would rather meet deadlines than an unfulfilled promise of speed, Sylvie Figuière noted.
“That does not mean that there will be no impact on working conditions,” said the trade unionist. “We start from a logic of public service (to lead) to a commercial logic,” denounced Christian Mathorel, federal secretary of the CGT, who estimates that between 20,000 and 30,000 jobs should be cut in the distribution chain. For him, “the abandonment of the daily round has already begun since we no longer necessarily deliver the mail in D+1”, with the end of the red stamp.
Christian Mathorel informs of “a programmed mobilization” as in the North, “with a strike for Monday”.
Source: BFM TV
