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Transportation / Storage Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation, Postal And Courier Activities Postal And Courier Activities 53.10 - Postal Activities Under Universal Service Obligation
105 - 112 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
26 June 2023
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2024
Foreseen end date
Description
At the end of June 2023, La Poste informed the employees of its industrial mail platform (PIC) in Fleury-les-Aubrais (Loiret) of a plan to close the site at the beginning of 2024. Management explains that this project is being carried out against a backdrop of a significant fall in mail volumes (down 23% in four years in Orléans, for example), and a parallel rise in parcel volumes.
The SUD Solidaires union is denouncing the planned closure of the Loiret's only PIC. 'The sorting machines are simply going to be dismantled and all the current mail sorting activity for the Loiret, Cher and Nièvre departments sent to Wissous' in the Paris region (Essonne).
Individual interviews have been held with the employees affected by the closure of this activity, i.e. two-thirds of the platform's workforce of between 160 and 170 employees.
Sources
24 October 2023: La République du Centre (www.larep.fr)
Citation
Eurofound (2023), La Poste, Relocation in France, factsheet number 200442, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/200442.
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