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In the short to medium term, A-Post must be retained. There should also be no change in the delivery rhythm, said the chairman of the board of directors of Swiss Post, Christian Levrat, in an interview with Tamedia published on Friday.
“The fact is that letter volumes are decreasing,” Levrat said when Tamedia asked him whether A-Post could be negotiated in the long term. The trend is towards more parcels and fewer letters. “As long as customers want A-Post, we will offer it.”
According to current developments, letter volume could fall below the billion-dollar mark between 2028 and 2034, CEO Roberto Cirillo said in an interview with CH Media, also published on Friday. Today, 1.65 billion letters would be delivered. A good quarter is franked with A-Post. More than half of the letters are B2 letters, i.e. mass letters that are delivered within five to six days, Cirillo said.
Branch network of the future still unclear
It’s important to distinguish between the post office’s commercial offerings and the federal government’s requirements, Levrat said. The discussions that have arisen about the type and extent of Swiss Post’s basic services are legitimate. “They specify what the post office must offer as a minimum,” said the chairman of the Board of Directors. Customers ultimately determine what the post office offers in addition to basic services.
Levrat is reluctant to answer the question of what the post office’s branch network will look like in the next ten years. The planning initially runs for the next four years. Discussions about the locations are still ongoing. That’s why he couldn’t elaborate on it. “In the long term, the plan is to expand the number of service points,” said Levrat. Here too the question is crucial.
Major job losses are not planned
Levrat cannot rule out the possibility that “adjustments to staffing will take place.” Massive job losses are not a priority at the moment. The postal service is more concerned with finding sufficient staff. By 2030, a third of the workforce will leave the company, mainly due to retirement.
The post office presented its 2023 annual report in Bern on Thursday. Last year it generated a consolidated profit of 254 million francs. In 2022 that was 295 million francs. The result was strongly influenced by the decrease in the volume of letters and parcels. “We need about seven to eight packages to make the same amount as a single letter,” Cirillo said in the aforementioned interview. The postal network segment also suffered further losses as a result of the decline in payment transactions at postal counters. (SDA)
Source:Blick
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