The road is marked: from next September 7, 11 post offices in Umbria close their doors. Region and ANCI – then, municipalities – have already announced appeal to the TAR against the decision of the Italian Post. It could therefore take action a precedent by courts or administrative, if diplomacy fail to pull off his best weapons, that term might be postponed for a few weeks. Elements but would not change the gist of the problem.
So today, while the law offices of Palazzo Donini and the Association of municipalities study the papers put before the court, it is time to try to anticipate what might be the consequences of this cut.
Services
The decision to close more than 400 branches throughout Italy (in Umbria is Castel Ritaldi, Annifo, Capodacqua, Perugia-square partisans, Sant’Egidio, and Villastrada Collazzone in Perugino and Collestatte, Sugano, Capito and Melezzole in Terni) was accompanied by Poste announcing the introduction of the so-called “electronic postman”. A postman 2.0, the canonical services, should add the availability of a pos to pay bills, and other recommended. Revolution all over, except that the territories that will remain “orphans” of post offices are, for the most part, inhabited by the elderly population and that, very often, in these areas there is adequate coverage of telephone services. In the report “Citizen and technology”, Istat in 2011 had surveyed 383 thousand families in Umbria: of these, 183mila – 47.9 percent – did not have access to the Internet. The “digital divide” in Umbria interested in at least 3% of the territory. It is clear therefore that, if technological revolution will be, this will occur in a relatively slow, accompanying inter alia a series of predictable inconvenience for users, connected to all transfers (materials and technicians) that will be needed to move the 11 branch offices at headquarters closer.
Incognita occupation
Poste Italian reassured about the fact that until 2020 there will not be layoffs. Meanwhile, however, the company has set up the Solidarity Fund and dusted off the old plan Passera (former CEO of the company) for which the financial sustainability would have been achieved with a staff of 120 thousand units, in place of the more than 140 thousand employees current. If, therefore, no one should lose his job, the specter that now faces is that the downgrade, which is the risk that the top functions of today – thanks to the changes introduced by the Job acts – are reduced in the event that the holders of those contracts do not accept transfers, even far away, where there is need of those qualifications. Situation in short anything but defined and could be much larger than the “only” the closure of 11 post offices.
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