Massive lay-offs planned at Polish Post

Poland’s state-owned postal service intends to make up to 15,000 redundancies in an attempt to cut costs.
The biggest cuts are to be made in the company’s extensive administration – clerical workers, accountants, inspectors and mail sorters in big cities are facing the cut. So are some of the employees of small post offices in towns and villages.

In October, the head of the Polish Post is to present a reconstruction and modernization scheme. At least eight sorting facilities are to be fully automated. It is also possible that the Polish Post will introduce a programme allowing for electronically monitoring the whereabouts of parcels and letters next year.