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Minister to press ahead with end to Monday postal deliveries

Wednesday 27 June 2012

Junior economic affairs minister Henk Bleker is to press ahead with plans to abandon compulsory post deliveries on Monday, he told MPs on Wednesday.

Bleker told parliament the law on postal delivery needs modernising because fewer letters are being posted.

PostNL said last year it wanted to stop Monday deliveries but is currently prevented from doing this by law. At the time a majority of MPs voted against the idea.

Bleker is to send the draft legislation to the Council of State for its recommendations during the summer.

PostNL, a former state-owned monopoly, is currently reorganising its delivery services following the start of cheap competition from budget delivery firms who focus on mass mailings and pay their workers per item delivered rather than a fixed salary.

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Readers' Comments

Just imagine if that happened to email, no service on Mondays!

When the horse & cart lost it's battle to the auto industry, nobody tried to improve the horse & cart business, right?

By The visitor | 27 June 2012 2:29 PM

Hi,
Minister to press ahead with end to Monday postal deliveries. Since your government has privitised the post colourful things happen. Somethims I get a Red postman, sometimes a yellow postman, sometimes a postman in jeans. I hope your post is not going the same way as Sombrero KPN.

By Terence Hale | 27 June 2012 4:19 PM

So just make sure that Bleker's (no doubt magnificent) salary is paid ONLY on Mondays!

By theo orval | 28 June 2012 1:42 AM

Is this worthy of a law? PostNL has not deliverd mail in Mondays for ages. Or on Saturdays. Or, come to think of it, Wednesdays. Are there, maybe, fewer letter because they don't get delivered anyway? This is a typical Henk Bleker way of thinking, after all.

By BeBob | 28 June 2012 11:44 AM