Post office branches at Lithuania Post to close
AB Lietuvos Paštas is looking to cut costs by reorganising 72 loss-making rural post offices by the end of this year. From 2 November, reorganisation is planned at 35 post offices, followed by 37 post offices in December. These posts incurred more than 2.3m lita loss in 2008.
“Universal economic decline, reduced purchasing power of the customers and complicated situation in the company is forcing us to make non popular but necessary decisions,” said director general of AB Lietuvos Andrius Urbonas. “Since it is a topic important to the society, the optimal solution must be reached hearing the consultations of the representatives of municipalities, analysing the flows of the customers, volumes of the services provided in loss making post offices, considering their technical conditions, and at the same time we must strive to ensure the further provision of services in order the citizens would not face inconveniences.”
The changes in the postal network will allow the company to save 2m litas this year and about 4m litas starting from 2010.
According to Urbonas, the provision of postal services will be ensured after changes in the postal network. The main services will be provided in the mobile post offices or in the nearest stationary post offices.
The employees of the reorganised post offices will be offered new positions: about 70% of them will shift to mobile and nearest stationary post offices.
