The Guadeloupe Modem deputy, Justine Benin, drew the attention of the Minister of the Economy via a written question on March 16 relating to "the territorial continuity of the public postal service in the overseas territories".
“Today, a package to or from overseas overseas exceeding 100 grams is subject to prohibitive tariffs, compared to those offered in hexagonal France. However, in view of the observed average incomes of the populations in the overseas territories, these tariffs are not affordable for all. Indeed, for example, 30% of the population of the Antilles live below the poverty line, while prices are 12% higher than in France. However, the European regulations relating to the postal service affirm the need for a universality of the postal service ”, she initially recalled.
According to a European directive, member states must "ensure that users enjoy the right to universal service". "Thus, in this period of pandemic limiting travel between France and overseas, the refusal to sell packages to overseas territories, despite the importance of the delivery rate that is imposed, may ultimately pose a real problem of equality vis-à-vis the public service ”, she points out secondly. “This questioning of equality vis-à-vis the public postal service is part of the continuity of rethinking territorial continuity no longer as a simple conception of mobility, but also as a universalization of the public service ensuring the link between France and the overseas territories ”, conceives the member. And to question the minister on the arrangements it intends to take to ensure the territorial continuity of the postal service ”. For the moment no answer has been given.
As a reminder in 2019, the Reunionese deputy Jean-Hugues Ratenon had already presented to the National Assembly a bill aimed at restoring equal access to the public postal service in the Overseas Territories.
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