What’s going on at La Poste? According to an investigation carried out by our colleagues from RTL, in the space of just 3 years, 9 postmen took their own lives and 5 others were narrowly saved after suicide attempts taking place at their place of work.
Independent experts, appointed by the Health and Safety Committees (CHSCT) of the Post Office, have decided to alert the government to the social situation deemed “worrying” in the company. These experts mention in particular a “deterioration in the state of health of the agents”, linked to several internal reorganizations – the consolidation of sorting centers, in particular.
The families of the victims, they point the finger at the working conditions employees of La Poste. The son of one of the victims, interviewed by RTL, says: “we added mailboxes to him and he could no longer keep up. We saw throughout his career that he was exhausted. His father, in a letter written shortly before his desperate act, declared: “they totally destroyed me”. The accusation clearly targeted the company: he had been a postman for 34 years.
Between 20% and 40% of tours would be “untenable”
According to RTL, the problem is mainly at the computer level: the software which calculates the rounds of the postmen would not take into account the difficulties of circulation, the road signs, the time necessary to go up the floors and exchange a few words with the users. … According to some experts, between 20% and 40% of the routes thus calculated by computer would be “untenable”…
Contacted by RTL, the management of La Poste responded with a press release: the company says “it does not recognize itself in these situations of ill-being” and ensures that it devotes each year “more than 30 million euros to health and occupational safety”.
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