La Poste ‘tests end of Dordogne’s daily post’

La Poste is looking at ending daily deliveries while staff do other work, such as helping older people on com­puters or completing tax forms, say postal workers in the Dordogne.

The CGT postal union claims customers are grouped in categories such as those receiving repeat deliveries of newspapers, getting mail daily and others every two days or once a week.

It was reacting to a letter from a villager in Lachaud, Hautefort, who said its postbox was taken away, with La Poste telling him it was rarely used (très faible et sporadique) and “did not justify a daily visit from the postman”.

The man saw it as the first step to ending daily rounds.

La Poste denies such ‘categorising’ happens. It says it has a public service mission that means staff will pass each day if there are deliveries to be made.

With less mail being sent, post staff do jobs such as checking on or helping old people at home. Meanwhile, sports paper L’Equipe is to use Amazon Prime for Paris deliveries.