The Porte du Miroir post office closed its doors several weeks ago in Mulhouse.
Other postal agencies already suffered a similar fate some time ago in the city of Bollwerk. This is because the reduction in the number of offices seems incomprehensible to many in the working-class neighborhoods, which form the heart of the city, in which the clientele (in particular the oldest or resistant to new technologies) is dependent on essential local places, where she can withdraw money, receive advice or buy a service offered by La Poste.
Especially since the public group posted a turnover of + 13.3% in the first half of 2020 compared to 2019. The postal bank, removed in the “relays” or “municipal postal agencies” (the postal services of the Porte du Miroir agency being entrusted to the service station “Avia“), Having alone increased its turnover by 33% in the same period!
Will the city of Mulhouse, one of the poorest in France, have to take charge of some of these transformations, to offset the consequences of the logic of privatization of the Post? It is true that it already does so at the Lavoisier Social Center, where a postal agency has been moved for a few years.
And what about “Mulhouse, city of the quarter of an hour“, To paraphrase the formula of the municipal team: “Work, consume, have fun, educate oneself, take care of oneself, within a perimeter of 15 minutes on foot or by bike from home” ?
“The People’s Citizen Assembly” which we were talking about here, made up in particular of Agnès Schneider, Sylviane Muré, Bernard Roth, and Joseph Simeoni (also municipal councilor), have launched the alert on this subject for many weeks. 4,095 signatures were also collected as part of a petition for the protection of public postal service agencies, and delivered in person to Michèle Lutz, mayor of Mulhouse. Joseph Simeoni intervened in municipal council on this subject on September 24.
After the announcement of the creation of a commercial “post office” and the silence of the municipal executive regarding the closure of the Porte du Miroir agency, the activists were received to discuss the need to sanctify the public postal service in urban areas.
The trade assistant, Philippe Trimaille, therefore received a delegation on November 9. He, it seems, understood the social demand of the inhabitants expressed through the petition.
It was also confirmed to members of the citizens’ assembly that for the time being, only the office at the Porte du Miroir was closing, and that there was no information on a possible closure of the Briand agency. or Vauban, whose insistent rumors announce the impending closure.
This, while the notion of “public service” is widely appreciated by the municipal team, for which “Only the service of the public matters”, which amounts to leaving open the question of the operator’s status …
Philippe Trimaille also confirmed that the mayor can make use of his right of veto against the closures, but only for the priority districts of the city (the QPV), or “the Door of the mirror” is located at the border, and he agreed that this could weigh in the negotiations he wants to open with the regional management of La Poste.
He said he was ready to work transparently with the activists in order to achieve success, and a new meeting was set for the month of January, in order to take stock of the subject.
To be continued, but the citizen collective warns that until then the mobilization will continue, because it does not want the post office of the Door of the mirror to serve as a “Lark mirror”…
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