PS: Slovak Post Office on Edge of Collapse, Slovakia Needs Modern Postal Centres

Bratislava, 1 July (TASR) - The Slovak Post Office is on the verge of collapse, it has no vision and no future, Martin Pekar, a transport expert from the opposition Progressive Slovakia (PS) party stated on Tuesday, criticising the organisation's functioning. According to him, Slovakia needs a network of modern, large-capacity postal centres with sufficient staff, technology and infrastructure. "It is unacceptable that the main logistics centre of the post office in Bratislava still operates in a building from the 1970s, where parcels are sorted upstairs - this is a logistical absurdity in the world," stated Pekar. "Instead of the Smer government finally building a modern centre, which Bratislava as a key hub of the postal network desperately needs, [Transport] Minister [Jozef] Raz [a Smer-SD nominee] wants to sell it. This is a blatant failure of public service management," added Pekar. According to the PS transport expert, the functioning of the post office lacks a concept. "Slovakia needs a network of modern, large-capacity postal centres, which will have sufficient staff, technology and infrastructure. We presented exactly such a solution seven years ago - but the government ignored it," he stressed. Pekar added that modern postal client centres could bring better service to citizens and businesses, better logistical connections, shorter waiting times, convenient services and extended opening hours. "A new strategy of locating them according to the real needs of the regions, rather than according to outdated and inefficient models, would also make sense," he said. am/mcs