La Poste is innovating with the appearance of traveling yellow trucks which will be able to offer the same services as post offices. An initiative to combat territorial disparities.
Going to a post office is not always easy, particularly because of the opening hours or the distance between the nearest establishment and your home. This is why La Poste is testing a new concept: traveling office trucks. The general public and digital director of La Poste, Nathalie Collin, announced West France the launch of this experiment with yellow vehicles which will be set up for half a day in village squares. There will initially be five on the roads of France. The system was inaugurated this Friday April 19, 2024 in Orne.
The objective is to fight against territorial disparities. If La Poste provides a presence for 97% of the population within five kilometers or twenty minutes by car, departmental disparities are still perceptible. While certain areas, such as the Paris region, easily reach 100% on this criterion, Gers, Lozère and even Meuse are below 90%. This test also aims to replace the opening of new post offices where the flow would be too low due to too few inhabitants in the surrounding area.
In these 9 square meter yellow trucks, adorned with the slogan “La Poste comes to meet you”, the postman will be able to receive customers. They will find all the usual services there: purchase of stamps and postal products, delivery of letters and parcels, access to mobile telephone offers, banking transactions with the Postal Bank, etc. Payments can be made by bank card and in cash. These mobile offices will also be outposts of France services operations (taxes, health insurance, family allowances, employment, etc.). One of the trucks will even act as a distributor during this test: an additional postman will be present for security. The truck will be open for three hours either in the morning or afternoon.
Who is concerned ?
In total, forty municipalities will see the trucks pass, or 13,000 inhabitants. Small villages in five departments are targeted. From April 23, trucks will be in La Creuse (in Vareilles, Saint-Priest-la-Plaine, Peyrat-la-Nonière, Saint-Frion, Toulx-Sainte-Croix, Nouhant, Saint-Pierre-Bellevu, Fransèches and La Saunière), in Orne (in Ménil-Hubert-en-Exmes, La Fresnaie Fayel, Aubry-le-Panthou, Champosoult, Neuville-sur-Touques, Orgères, Croisilles, Mont-Ormel, Le Sap-Andre) and in Haute-Marne (in Heuilley-le-Grand, Saint-Maurice, Noidant-le-Rocheux, Marac and Leuchey).
From April 27 will be added the Gers (in Pessoulens, Encausse, Saint-Sauvy, Pessan, Le Brouilh-Monbert, Saint-Jean-le-Comtal, Gimbrède, Castéra-Lectourois, Roquelaure) and the Jura (Colonne, Château -Chalon, L’Etoile, Etival, Mesnois, La Chailleuse, Frébuans, Cressia).