The mayor of Totana, Andrés García, met today with the national president of Correos, José Manuel Serrano, who visited this municipality in order to learn first-hand about the needs and demands to improve the functioning of this service.
After receiving it in the Mayor's office, they visited the office located on Santa Bárbara street in this town.
The visit is part of a round that the president of Correos made today to the municipalities of Totana and Calasparra to know the problem in the universal postal service that has been dragging the offices of both municipalities basically due to the lack of personnel.
The mayor has moved the plenary agreement last April in which he urged the Government of Spain to solve the problems of person in the staff of the Totana office for much of the year.
The City Council of Totana already approved in that ordinary session, unanimously, a motion of the Ganar Totana-IU Group, which advocated to stop the progressive deterioration that the Postal Service in the Region of Murcia is suffering, and more specifically in Totana in the wake of funding cuts in recent years that revert to municipalities like this one.
The totanero Consistory already expressed its institutional rejection before the cut of financing that was affecting to the set of the postal service in the State, but of special form to populations of rural field and zones "not economically profitable", implying an evident inequality with urban zones or large population centers.
The mayor recalled that Totana already urged the Government of the Nation, at the time of the PP, to guarantee the postal service to the citizenship, and to correct, already then, the parliamentary procedure of the General State Budgets (PGE) in 2018, whose cuts were having clearly negative consequences for the citizens, for Correos and its workers.
Likewise, Andrés García defended the defense of the provision of the postal service and the viability of the public company by improving the delivery service in Totana.
For its part, the president of Correos thanked the mayor for offering to visit Totana and explained that of the 2,295 new places approved in the selection process that was carried out in the national territory at the end of September, 61 of them will go to the Region of Murcia, although he did not specify how many of these would go to Totana's office whenever the pertinent technical studies are carried out.
He also reported that in the new call for places scheduled for 2019, there will be 1,869 places to alleviate the situation of personnel that exists in Correos;
and he pleaded to unblock the collective agreement and the civil service agreement, blocked for more than 4 years in the largest public company in Spain, with almost 60,000 workers, before the strike called at the end of this year.
