2023-05-04 09:25:00
From 2024, uncertainty reigns regarding access to postal services. By the end of the year, the Federal Council must submit a report on the future of universal service, which will not fail to relaunch political discussions around this sensitive issue.
Peripheral regions are worried
The Swiss Association for Mountain Regions (SAB) has already started to get active. He pleads for the maintenance of postal offices, but also for digital development.
Postal agencies make it possible to keep an aspect of social cohesion, defends the SAB. “The postal agencies have disappeared one after the other. Evolution must take place, but taking into account this social issue”, defended the president of the umbrella organization, the Friborg national councilor of the Center, Christine Bulliard-Marbach in the Matinale of the RTS.
>> Listen to Christine Bulliard-Marbach’s interview in La Matinale
The SAB is in favor of parallel digital development. “Digitalization can help us improve existing services. But we must not neglect the physical aspect”, declared the director of the umbrella organization, Thomas Egger.
La Poste open to debate
The current law on La Poste dates from 2010. Since then, our world has undergone many changes. “Smartphones were still a very marginal phenomenon. This is why Switzerland must now be able to discuss and decide on the public service that people and businesses will need in a few decades,” explained Nathalie Dérobert, spokesperson for The post office.
>> Listen to Nathalie Dérobert’s interview in La Matinale
However, Swiss Post welcomed the reflections of the Swiss Group for Mountain Regions, as well as its broad contribution to the debate.
Radio subject: Mathieu Henderson
Web adaptation: Emilien Verdon
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