La Poste does not intend to end the distribution of mail everywhere six days a week, management assured Friday.

“We are not at all questioning the principle of the daily passage of the postman,” Philippe Dorge, deputy general manager responsible for the Services-Mail-Parcels branch, told AFP.

"The organization of the rounds is maintained, with the postman who is in charge", and "will go well daily for the whole of his district six days a week", he added.

"It is important for us to maintain this organization", in any case imposed in the universal postal service - the guaranteed services - provided for by law, insisted the official.

"We must not confuse the service provided to the customer and the way in which we organize ourselves to provide it", specified Philippe Dorge.

Faced with a spectacular fall in the volumes of mail transported, La Poste has just renewed its range of franking with in particular the end of the red stamp, for mail delivered the next day (on D + 1).

It must adapt, with “local arrangements”, according to him.

Experiments, echoed by Franceinfo on Friday, are planned.

“The tour is going to be organized in a different way”

"There will always be distribution six days a week. On the other hand, the tour will be organized in a different way", explained to AFP Sylvie Figuière, CFDT federal secretary.

A postman today has a fixed route, and will go everywhere, whether there is mail to deliver or not.

"Tomorrow it won't be quite like that.

If there is nothing, it will not pass in the street,” she said.

Postal workers will have to sort their mail beforehand according to the urgency of distribution, the objective being to “meet the customer promise” with 95% quality of service on the delivery of the envelope, according to her.

Customers prefer meeting deadlines to an unfulfilled promise of speed, noted Sylvie Figuière.

“That does not mean that there will not be impacts on working conditions”, underlined the trade unionist.

"We start from a public service logic [to go] to a commercial logic", denounced Christian Mathorel, CGT federal secretary, who estimates that 20,000 to 30,000 jobs should be cut in the distribution chain.

For him, "the abandonment of the daily round has already begun since we no longer necessarily distribute the mail on D + 1", with the end of the red stamp.

Christian Mathorel reports "a programmed mobilization" as in the North, "with a strike for Monday".

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