Changes at La Poste include supplying new public mailboxes

Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss postal service, La Poste, will be keeping only 30 of 114 post offices that were reviewed as part of cost-cutting measures begun in April 2009. A nearly 50 percent decline in mailed letters and packages plus a 17 percent drop in postal payments in less than a decade is behind a major restructuring of services to the public. La Poste’s list includes two post offices in Vaud that will be closed definitively without any replacement, in Buchillon and Chalet-à-Gobet.

Others will be modified with fewer services on offer or will be replaced by home pickup service, a practice widely used in many rural areas. The cutbacks are  not finished: La Poste in April identified 421 post offices that will be reviewed by 2011.

At the end of 2009 La Poste has 2,348 post offices and 1,159 pickup services.

Swiss post office closings, changes (complete list)

Links to other sites: La Poste announcement in English, 24 Heures, Le Nouvelliste

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