The City of Totana has asked the Central Government to stop the deterioration of the Postal Service in the Region of Murcia, solving in this case the lack of staff in the staff of the office in Totana for much of the year;
in order to prevent the funding cuts of recent years from reversing in the public postal service.
The totanero Consistory already last April expressed its institutional rejection to the funding cut that was affecting the postal service as a whole in the State, but especially to rural populations and areas "not economically profitable", implying an inequality manifests in urban areas or large population centers.
The Plenary of Totana already approved months ago to urge the Government of the Nation to guarantee the service of Correos to the citizenship, and to correct in the parliamentary proceeding of the General Budgets of the State (PGE) in 2018, whose cuts are having clearly negative consequences for the citizenship, for Correos and its workers.
Likewise, it is required the restitution of the 120 million euros cut in the 2017 PGE to guarantee the provision of the Universal Postal Service and the viability of the public company;
as well as to unblock the collective agreement and civil service agreement, blocked for more than 4 years in the largest public company in our country, with almost 60,000 workers.
The Postal Public Service, deficient in a good part of the Spanish territory, is also in the Region of Murcia;
especially, in non-urban areas dependent on the Post Office, which have seen their budget funding cut by the provision of the Universal Postal Service (SPU) by 66% (120 million euros) in 2017.
The PGE project of 2018 has once again reduced this amount by one third;
and in addition, the State owes more than 250 million euros to the public postal company for this concept, corresponding to the years of the last years.
The cut contemplated in the PGE 2018 project would affect more than 16 million citizens of medium and small populations such as Totana and Aledo, whose office may involve a reduction of two postmen, weakening the already curtailed service in a population that has grown 4,000 inhabitants in the last 8 years and 10,000 since 2001, according to INE data.
The growth of the population and demand for this basic service has been parallel to the deterioration and cutting in the Postal Service in recent years, dismantling a service that was a model years ago in Spain.
