The municipality resumes the postal service in a municipal agency

After about ten years of reducing postal services in the Omaha sector, the municipal council of Vierville-sur-Mer has accepted the transformation of the post office into a municipal postal agency. The elected officials made this decision with regret, but considered it the best way to preserve a local service whose closure seemed to have become inevitable.

Jean-Marie Oxéant, mayor, recalled the stages of this withdrawal: half-time transition as part of a twinning with Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, permanent closure of the Saint-Laurent office, reduction of winter and summer hours, closure on Wednesdays and Saturdays. An attempt at total closure during the summer of 2007 had caused a strong mobilization of users, who had directly brought their demands to the receiver of Trévières. In the end, the office only had five hours of weekly opening.

The new agreement must maintain the reception in the existing premises, at the rate of fifteen hours per week, spread over five mornings from Tuesday to Saturday. The municipality will employ the person in charge of the counter. La Poste will pay him a monthly contribution of 885 euros and provide the necessary computer equipment, which it will also maintain. The agreement is due to enter into force in the following weeks.

Jean-Pierre Richard, general councilor and member of the Departmental Commission for Territorial Postal Presence, welcomed this development. He felt that the municipality had chosen to maintain a postal presence for the inhabitants of Vierville and the surrounding area.

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