Tag: Estonia

The council of the state-owned Eesti Post (Estonian Post) company ruled last week to cut 91 jobs this year instead of the previously planned 156. “When exactly the slips will be handed to specific employees depends first and foremost on the Estonian Communications Workers Trade Union Association as well as the Labor Inspectorate, which must give their consent to the layoffs in accordance with valid laws,” spokeswoman Inge Rumessen told BNS on Monday. Eesti Post has been making rearrangements during almost ten years to increase the efficiency of distribution, primarily by giving cars to mail carriers in rural areas who earlier used to go on foot or by bike. Also, it is purchasing the service of mail distribution from people who use their own cars to carry mail in rural areas as sole proprietors.

Eesti Post (Estonian Post) will launch a pilot project this fall whereby it will introduce bar codes on letters instead of postal stamps. The project will cost 876,000 kroons (EUR 56,000) and involve some 50 Estonian companies, the daily Eesti Paevaleht reported. “The two-dimensional bar code doesn’t look like the bar code used on goods in stores, it’s rather like a square of approximately 1.5 centimeters in size filled with dots,” Eesti Post CEO Alo Streimann told the newspaper.