According to France‘s postal unions, the proposed overhaul of the French post office network could result in the closure of up to 6,000 post offices. The French postal services operator, La Poste, is carrying out the review on the orders of the French government, which wants the state-owned operator to reduce its running costs. At present La Poste has a total of 17,000 post offices and sub-post offices.
Read MoreToshiba Corp said its German subsidiary, Toshiba Europe GmbH, has won a contract worth roughly 66 mln euro or 9 bln yen to provide La Poste, the French postal service, with an advanced mail-processing system. Under the terms of the contract, Toshiba Europe will deliver up to a total of 100 units of mail-processing equipment that will promote increased efficiency in mail delivery, with the ability to process more than 30,000 pieces of mail an hour, Toshiba said in a statement.
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Read MoreJean-Paul Bailly, the chairman of the French post office, La Poste, yesterday opened the organisation’s new mail-sorting office in northern Paris. The new facility is the biggest of its kind in Europe, capable of processing 5 million items a day from eight of the French capital’s 20 arrondissements. La Poste’s mail director, Christian Kozar, has stressed that no other sorting office will close as a result of new centre’s launch. Its aim, he said, is next-day delivery for nine out of 10 letters by 2010.
Read MoreThe three biggest unions of La Poste, the French post office – the postal and telecoms branches of FO, CGT and SUD – have urged its employees to join in a day of action on September 21 in support of jobs and against La Poste’s dismantling and post office closures. The protest comes in the run-up to the French parliamentary debate this autumn on the French postal services reform bill, which incorporates into French law the European Union’s directives on postal service liberalization. The proposed legislation also provides for the creation of a postal bank in France.
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