La Poste has no intention of ending the delivery of mail everywhere six days a week, which is imposed by law, assured the management this Friday, January 6, denying press information including franceinfo.
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“We do not at all question the principle of the daily passage of the postman”Philippe Dorge, deputy general manager responsible for the Services-Mail-Parcels branch, told AFP. “The organization of tours is maintained, with the postman who is in charge”and “will pass well daily for the whole of his district six days a week”he added.
“It is important for us to maintain this organization”in any case imposed in the universal postal service – the guaranteed services – provided for by law, insisted the official. “We must not confuse the service provided to the customer and the way in which we organize ourselves to provide it”said Philippe Dorge.
Postman rounds will evolve
Faced with a spectacular fall in the volumes of mail transported, La Poste has just renewed its range of franking with in particular the end of the red stamp, for mail delivered the next day (on D + 1). She has to adapt, with “local amenities”, according to him. Experiments, echoed by Franceinfo on Friday, are planned.
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“There will always be distribution six days a week. On the other hand, the tour will be organized in a different way”explained to AFP Sylvie Figuière, federal secretary CFDT.
A postman today has a fixed route, and will go everywhere, whether there is mail to deliver or not. “Tomorrow it won’t be quite like that. If there is nothing, it will not pass in the street ”she said.
The postal workers will first have to sort their mail according to the urgency of distribution, the objective being to“meeting the customer promise” with 95% quality of service on the delivery of the fold, according to her. Customers prefer meeting deadlines to an unfulfilled promise of speed, noted Sylvie Figuière.
“That does not mean that there will not be impacts on working conditions”underlined the trade unionist.
“We start from a logic of public service [pour aller] to commercial logic., denounced Christian Mathorel, CGT federal secretary, who estimates that 20,000 to 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 distribute the mail on D + 1”, with the end of the red stamp. Christian Mathorel reports “planned mobilization” as in the North, “with a strike for Monday”.
