If the postman does not sound: – BBC

Editorial

Milan , November 3, 2015 – 10:02

     
     
 

The title of the famous novel by the American James Cain’s The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1934) has probably inspired the “process of revision of the Universal Postal Service” that started just yesterday, by mail delivery every other day: 3 in a week, even in the next two. The significant drop in efficiency is accompanied by generalized tariff increase: from 80 to 95 cents to 20 grams; therefore we pay more, to be served less. Some time ago the postman rang twice a day from Monday to Friday in the morning and mid-afternoon, in addition to the morning of Saturday, a total of 11 weekly addresses! At that happy – concluded twenty years ago – letters and cards with postage ordinary were delivered the next day in any Italian. The invention of “priority mail” has also raised the postage and lengthened the time of delivery, estimated by the new regulations in a period ‘from 1 to 3 days, in addition to the acceptance, depending on the area of ​​collection and / or destination ‘. The Counter-snail will hit the North and the South (why?): In Lombardy, they will be penalized even 542 municipalities. So here we slipped inadvertently in series B. The unseemly “Universal Postal Service” was approved with minor changes AGCOM (Authority for the Communications). Even the unions – confederal and autonomous, united insensitivity to the interests of users – have endorsed the plan, introduced on the sly with the start of the so-called “Phase 1″. Paradoxically, in the era of the high speed and the technological revolution the (dis) post marks the negative record in delivery. There are additional and unspecified novelty for the period April 2015 to February 2017. The super manager of Posteitaliane adopt the “Cosmic Postal Service”, with guaranteed delivery … for the following year? The context is that of fiscal federalism that has doubled the tax burden and the federal railway that has replaced the comfortable and cheap convoys interregional trains “compartmentalized” in one region. Euthanasia of the public postal service (implemented without a shot being fired from “Posteitaliane Spa”) is interwoven with the unstoppable decline of politics, unable to interpret the interests of citizens, who – in this case – would meet the mailman twice day and not two or (going well) three times a week.

3 November 2015 | 10:02

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