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I feel like the (very valid) points you are making, are not contradicting OP

He did not say the workers had less to do, he said the company had to find new revenue streams... Like you I support this initiative if it also includes employees wellbeing

La Poste is like France Telecom 10 years ago. The landscape is changing, it needs to evolve with the new world, provide new services, find a new place & role, hopefully keeping the values of public services. We know that the France Telecom => Orange turnaround was a business success at the expense of the health of many employees. I am afraid it will be the same with la Poste because of the same rigid management practices

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> The landscape is changing, it needs to evolve with the new world

To be fair, this is not much the natural evolution of the landscape but the political decisions from the European Commission pushing on its “pro-competition”[1] agenda.

[1] you may want to call it “neoliberal”, and you'll be right.

I disagree : Internet and emails are a structural change that challenge the fundamental raison d'être, the role of the postal service.

Same as Internet challenge the role of France Telecom as a communication provider

La Poste transformation is required, otherwise they'll quickly become obsolete. And "in theory" they approach it the right way ? What are the values and strengths of la Poste ? It's commitment to public service, its network of offices around the country, the relationship and trust between the agents and the public... Then based on that you can rebuild a new set of services offered by la Poste

But of course the difference between theory and practice is that they may do these changes in a brutal, top-down fashion that leaves employees burnt-out :-(

And also, blaming the European Union for everything is a bad reflex that halps nationalist and Brexit-like parties

There was no explicit mention of "there's less work for them", but making the point of "workers with a very high job security" had (imo) no other purpose but to imply that those people are here to stay and that one has to find a way to make them useful (otherwise why bother mentioning that?). It was my reading of it.

Anyway, in case, I just wanted to expose those facts :)

Totally agree with your analysis about Orange.

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