Since today, parcel delivery subsidiary of the La Poste delivers parcels on Sundays, but for now only in some cities … Good news for a month of Christmas … To avoid queuing in shops, more and more French people choose shopping online. They can now be delivered every day … even on Sunday. This Sunday the 19th […]
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At the Post Office, the social climate is stormy. Once again, the CGT and SUD called a strike of all services of La Poste in the department of Loire Atlantique, Tuesday 21st March. Unions point to workforce reductions, related to non-replaced departures. “ La Poste” profoundly transforming is the factor for the strike action in the […]
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Strike Action before Christmas, the postal workers denounce their working conditions and the use of outsourcing … “This is an indefinite strike. We demand decent working conditions.” A dozen postmen at Fléac, near Angoulême, in the Charente region, began a strike yesterday at dawn. All are working to “package” the unique service disrupted by this […]
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During their rounds, three postman of Rennes were robbed of their bikes since the beginning of the year, with all the mail it contained. Every day, sixty five postal workers deliver through the streets on their bicycles to deliver mail for Rennes. About 20 kg of various letters and folds, carried in saddlebags. Mail or bike thief? […]
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Seventh-day strike at the post office Nantes Rollin, in the city centre. “45% of postal workers stopped work on Tuesday,” said Sud PTT. According to management, only 35% of postal workers and not the 45% that the union claim, were on strike, although they confirm that there are some disruptions in the mail delivery for […]
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The Banque Postale is embarking on voice biometrics for secure payments from its customers over the Internet. To secure Internet purchases, banks usually send an encrypted code on the mobile phone of their clients. To go further, the bank of the post office, banque postale has decided to innovate by testing voice biometrics. The principle […]
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With a range of both electric and natural gas , La Poste aims to reduce its emissions … In the race for the use of so-called transport vehicles that are “soft to the enviroment”, La Poste does not want to be left behind. This Friday, its CEO Philippe Wahl came to Bordeaux to present the latest […]
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They will be performed by volunteer factors in exchange for a financial contribution … Packages the Sunday before Christmas. Post is about to experience the delivery Sunday 20 December, in seven major French cities and on a voluntary basis, its employees, says Le Journal du Dimanche. According to the weekly newspaper, union officials were summoned […]
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Post Offices to become one-stop shops … It has been anounced that around 1,000 rural post offices across France could be transformed into one-stop-shops for utilities, benefits and other government services. Under new plans, the government is seeking to work in partnership with La Poste, to help and transform rural post offices by increasing the […]
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An interesting article that I read about the Post Office here in France, on the Rudebagette website, saying how the post office, despite the slowing down of its traditional revenue sources, the delivery of the post, it has managed to expand into other areas such as banking etc and is now embracing new technology to […]
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