The town hall hall will soon be renovated; a partition will be knocked down. Here, a postal agency is promised to open on March 1st. “I couldn’t see the town living without Post Office,” concedes the mayor of Saint-Denis-en-Val, Marie-Philippe Lubet.
Until the first weeks of 2024, the more than 7,600 inhabitants still entered the doors of the La Poste office; a postal relay was then provided by the florist until the beginning of December. She decided to no longer continue this activity. “It had become too complicated to manage,” summarizes the mayor. “La Poste could play the game better because, financially, it does not sufficiently compensate merchants.”
An agent to recruit
Marie-Philippe Lubet then led the project of creating a postal agency within the town hall. “We are going to recruit an agent with the objective of providing a service to the Dionysians. This will have a cost for the town hall despite the compensation from La Poste. It also helps us with 80% of the cost of the work.”
Residents will no longer have to go to the Saint-Marceau postal office in Orléans to stamp their mail, send a parcel or collect a registered letter. “We will carry out all these operations at the town hall postal agency which will also be open on Saturday morning,” explains Marie-Philippe Lubet. “On the other hand, there will be no financial operations possible, apart from small withdrawals.”
“In the eye of the storm”
An unknown remains: how busy will this agency be? Difficult, today, to project oneself. “The florist received on average between twelve and fifteen people per day,” estimates the mayor. This is not a wave.
“La Poste is no longer making money. The service had deteriorated. The Saint-Denis-en-Val agency was in the eye of the storm. Closures, almost everywhere, are inevitable even if I fought to that the municipality's office remains open With this agency at the town hall, I hope that things will smooth out, that everyone will move in the same direction.”
The opposition's reaction
An allusion to the protests brought by the municipal opposition. Yann Portugues, via a press release, indicates that “a municipal postal agency will be a lesser evil but it will be a postal activity at the expense of the Dionysians because our municipality will have to finance the agents and the system implemented. He makes it clear that We wouldn't be in this situation if the post office hadn't been closed.”
