Correos will leave the residents in the rural areas of the municipality of Tías, the third most populated on the island of Lanzarote, and the main one for its tourist development, without nearby service. As of April 1, according to what this state company has communicated, Correos will centralize all its rural services in the facilities of Puerto del Carmen. Since March 15, the deliveries that Correos had in the town of Mácher have been moved to Puerto del Carmen. And the definitive closure of this office will be on March 31. According to Correos announces on a poster on the door of this office, as of April 1, all services will be centralized in Puerto del Carmen, including those in the rural areas of the municipality.
The mayor of Tías, Pancho Hernández, requests the Central Government, through the State Company Correos y Telégrafos, S.A., S.M.E, to "reconsider this decision, which undermines public services to a population residing in rural areas, and arbitrate alternatives that allow the reopening to the public of that office so that citizens who reside in these payments do not have to travel to the town of Puerto del Carmen, which - despite having an open office in Tías - is the new logistics point of Correos for rural areas".
Legally, the State Company Correos y Telégrafos, S.A., S.M.E is a 100% public capital company, whose owner is the Spanish State and which operates through the State Society of Industrial Participations (SEPI), dependent on the Central Government. Given this situation, the Tías City Council, from its Government group, asks the state management of Correos to reconsider this decreed closure, without prior communication to the City Council, and proceed to reopen it and offer its public service in this rural area.
Correos is the operator designated by law to provide the universal postal service in Spain, in accordance with the requirements of quality, regularity, accessibility and affordability that make effective the right of all citizens to postal communications, in a market that was fully liberalized on January 1, 2011, in accordance with Law 43/2010, of December 30, of the Universal Postal Service, the Rights of Users and the Postal Market.
This Law fundamentally regulates the conditions of collection, admission, distribution and delivery of the universal postal service required of the designated operator, as well as the cost and financing of these obligations, the prices and other tariff conditions of postal services.
From now on, Correos, despite having an office in Mácher, decides to close it to the public and focus its services on the Puerto del Carmen post office, "considerably undermining its direct care services for those residing in the rural areas of Tías, which the postman in this area covered".
