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The Government approved this Tuesday the extension of the Universal Postal Service concession contract until the end of September 2021, which ended on December 31 of this year. The CTT concessionaire indicates that the “contract will not have any immediate change in the current terms and conditions of service provision.”
The post office says that “despite the efforts and efforts, initiated by CTT long before the outbreak of the pandemic crisis, it was not possible, for totally unrelated reasons, that the transition to a new contract occurred in due time. Thus, as recently announced, the Government has decided to determine this extension, precisely under the exceptional current situation ”.
Faced with this situation, CTT says that its “high sense of responsibility and public service, especially in the context of the current pandemic crisis – in which it is considered crucial to maintain services to the populations and the integrity of logistics chains – lead CTT to ensure the continuity of the provision of the public postal service and other concessioned services, avoiding an unnecessary and unprecedented crisis of interruption of an essential public service ”.
“However, CTT does so, without prejudice to the initiatives it deems appropriate, taking into account the need to rebalance, as a consequence of the abrupt drop in mail, a concession contract that, in 2020 and within the extension period, will not it seems sustainable ”, According to the company directed by João Bento.
“CTT’s decision also takes into account the conviction created in the multiple interactions, that is, during the last weeks, with the Government about the need to evolve the conditions for the provision of the public mail service, which recovers future sustainability and long term. “According to the post office.
To renew the contract, Correos is demanding new criteria and a lightening of the quality indicators that the communications regulator, Anacom, uses to evaluate the postal service. The Government, on the other hand, maintains that the concessionaire of this service must have a station in operation, at least, in all the municipalities of the country.
The government extends the universal postal service concession to CTT until the end of September 2021
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