Here are the 68 French towns where daily post deliveries are stopping

Almost 70 places in France will stop receiving post on a daily basis during March 2023, as part of a new experiment by La Poste.

The 68 sites, which are spread across the country, will move to receiving most post every other day only. Only urgent mail, daily newspapers, and larger parcels will be delivered on ‘non-post’ days.

The trial is part of La Poste’s work to adapt its service to the declining rate of normal post being sent, it has said.

It comes as the service implements new digital means to send post, such as scanning and printing urgent letters on-site, buying postage online, and using digital stamps.

Read more: How to send parcels from home via La Poste
Read more: French post office to launch trials into eliminating daily rounds

The trial locations for the ‘every other day post’ are expected to be as follows:

Île-de-France

• Paris, 14th arrondissement
• Sceaux (Hauts-de-Seine)
• Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis)
• Serris (Seine-et-Marne)
• Tremblay-en-France (Seine-Saint-Denis)
• Bry-sur-Marne (Val-de-Marne)
  Fontenay-le-Fleury (Yvelines).

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

• 3rd district of Lyon (Rhône)
• Aurillac (Cantal)
• Privas (Ardèche)
• Montbrison (Loire)
• Riom (Puy-de-Dôme)
• Ambérieu-en-Bugey (Ain)
• Seyssinet (Isère)
• Cranves-Sales (Haute-Savoie)
• Douvaine (Haute-Savoie).

Brittany

• Dinard (Ille-et-Vilaine)
• Ploërmel (Morbihan)
• Landivisiau (Finistère)

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

• Dijon Nord (Côte d'Or)
• Dole (Jura)
• Varennes-Vauzelles (Nièvre)
• Luxeuil-les-Bains (Haute-Saône)
• Saint-Denis-lès-Sens (Yonne).

Centre-Val de Loire

• Joué-lès-Tours (Indre-et-Loire)
• Valençay (Indre)
• Neuville-aux-Bois (Loiret)
• Saint-Paterne-Racan (Indre-et-Loire).

Eastern France

• Epernay (Marne)
• Creutzwald (Moselle)
• Guebwiller (Haut-Rhin)
• Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle)
• Vittel-Mirecourt (Vosges).

Hauts-de-France

• Amiens (Somme)
• Armentières (Nord)
• Carvin (Pas-de-Calais)
• Méru (Oise)
• Arques-Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais).

Normandy

• Coutances (Manche)
• Sotteville-lès-Rouen (Seine-Maritime)
• Valframbert-Alençon (Orne)
• Aumale (Seine-Maritime)
• Val-de-Reuil (Eure).

Nouvelle-Aquitaine

• Limoges (Haute-Vienne), in the Uzurat area.
• Dax (Landes)
• Cozes (Charente-Maritime)
• Roullet (Charente)
• La Sauve (Gironde)
• Salies-de-Béarn (Pyrénées-Atlantiques)
• Châtellerault (Vienne).

Occitanie

• Canet-en-Roussillon (Pyrénées-Orientales)
• Cahors (Lot)
• Saint-Lys (Haute-Garonne)
• Pamiers (Ariège)
• Moissac (Tarn-et-Garonne)
• Villeneuve-lès-Avignon (Gard).

Pays de la Loire

• Nantes-Rollin (Loire-Atlantique)
• Cholet (Maine-et-Loire)
• La Baule (Loire-Atlantique)
• Connerré (Sarthe)
• Fontenay-le-Comte (Vendée)

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

• Marseille, 12th arrondissement (Bouches-du-Rhône)
• Saint-Barthélémy district of Nice (Alpes-Maritimes)
• Le Beausset (Var)
• Roquefort-les-Pins (Alpes-Maritimes)
• Gap (Hautes-Alpes).

The list comes from internal documents seen by France Info, but it could still change, and has not yet been confirmed by La Poste.

Related articles

La Poste to launch digital stamps in 2023: How will they work?
Legacy of La Poste: Tracing France’s postal service through the ages
France’s new digital timbre rouge: Will my letter be seen by staff?