The Village post office will permanently close its premises on rue Gilet this evening at 5 p.m. A decision badly experienced by users and condemned by some elected officials even if La Poste announces the upcoming opening of a Postal Relay in a shop in the city.
Announced for January 1, 2022, the closure of the post office on rue Gilet, in the historic center of Colomiers, will even be effective, from this Thursday evening, December 30. Users therefore only have today to carry out their transactions before the curtain is finally lowered. A measure which made the section of the Communist Party of West Toulouse react strongly. “Colomiers, a town of 40,000 inhabitants, will have only one post office on January 1, because the one in the village will be permanently closed,” laments Théodore Aubin, municipal councilor in Colomiers and secretary of the PCF West Toulouse section. “Beyond the management of the public establishment, the person in charge is first and foremost the government, whose planning contract provides in particular for a reduction in the number of offices.
From post. We are moreover very astonished that while the departmental council has just, on the proposal of the elected Communists, to vote a wish against the closures of post offices, the agency of Colomiers village has not benefited from any reprieve “.
Announcement of a Postal Relay
For its part, La Poste explains that it is adapting its organization in a context of constant decline in attendance, on the order of 6% on average per year, a drop reaching 42% at the Colomiers Village office between 2019 and 2021. However, La Poste announces that: “The post office at Colomiers Village will be transformed into La Poste Relais. This will allow all Columérins to find La Poste’s main services within a La Poste business. city, with extended opening hours for the convenience of each customer. The time required for its installation, this La Poste Relais will open its doors no later than the 1st quarter of 2022 “.
However, this Relais postal will not be open in the current premises of the post office on rue Gilet and it is not yet said that it will be set up in a shop in the Village …
In the meantime, the Colomiers Plein Center post office (place du Languedoc) is open from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 1:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. from Monday to Friday.
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