French La Poste plans to keep 17,000 French postal service outlets
La Poste chairman Jean-Paul Bailly said the French state-owned company plans to keep its 17,000 outlets for postal services.
Asked in an interview with French daily Le Figaro if La Poste will get rid of 6,000 post offices as part of restructuring plans to modernise the service and cut 10,000 jobs as unions expect, Bailly said: ‘I’ve read the figures … I refute them categorically.’
‘There are 17,000 postal outlets in France, there will be 17,000 tomorrow,’ he added.
Unions last week said La Poste plans to extend restructuring tested in the Loire-Atlantique region to other areas in France from January 2005.
But he admitted La Poste needs to upgrade it service.
‘Everyone can see that we are not open where and when the French want … Faced with this situation, we have undertaken a review to better adapt our network to the needs of the population,’ he said.
