Battle for a post in Vierville-sur-Mer

The closure of the Vierville-sur-Mer post office had deprived Omaha Beach of this service for a week. On July 19, tourists had found the door closed, without the village being notified. The cut recalled that Vierville served the famous Landing Beach, where 18 heads of state had gone in 1994 for the fiftieth anniversary.

The mayor, Jean-Marie Oxéant, explained that La Poste invoked a security problem. For seven summers, lifeguards had occupied the first floor of the building; their premises communicated with those of the postmen and the toilets were shared. This organization was suddenly presented as dangerous.

The 246 inhabitants of the village saw it as a pretext. The previous winter, they had already opposed a definitive closure motivated by a profitability considered insufficient. On July 21, about thirty of them went to the Trévières post office to close their account.

According to the mayor, a reopening was initially conditioned on the departure of the rescuers, which he refused. Contacted by Le Point, the management of La Poste finally proposed to install an armored door between the two services. The reopening was announced for the following week, but the sustainability of the post office remained uncertain.

Reconstructed or uncertain passages:
- The beginning of the neighboring article on the accident of Polish pilgrims, visible at the bottom of the scan, is excluded from this rewriting: it does not concern the post office. The file name contains OF, but the text cites a contact with Le Point; no definite attribution to a journal is added.

Archive image: https://vierville.cordelle.eu/PhDoc16/2007-26juilletPoste-OF.jpg