SwissPost Set to Reduce Branches

  03.06.2017 Gstaad Living

"It's not like the posts will be eliminated,” says Markus Flückiger, communications manager for Postnet Center. “There is no dismantling, but rather a rebuilding, because we want to stay relevant.”

The SwissPost insists that taking regional criteria and needs into consideration is important, as well as federal legal accessibility requirements. Once talks with the cantons have been completed, postal offices in the Saanenland which will require a so-called alternative solution are Saanen, Schönried, and Gstaad.

The SwissPost has the tightest network of access facilities for postal services in Europe, according to Markus Flückiger. And yet the number of postal access points set for elimination by 2020 must be increased from 3800 to 4000. The number of traditionally staffed branches as in Gstaad, Saanen, and Schönried, must also be reduced by 2020, from the current number of 1320 to approximately 800 to 900.

In the places where accessibility to the postal service is limited to home delivery (Abländschen, Turbach, Grund and Feutersoey), customers can already send letters by leaving them for the postmen to pick up.


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