At the Bois-Guillaume mail distribution center, we are organizing to deal with the influx of mail.
It is near 52,000 electoral letters sent by the Prefecturecontaining the professions of faith of the candidates. They are added to 35,000 to 36,000 envelopes -or “folds” in the jargon- which are distributed every day by the teams.
Received Tuesday evening, postmen have four days to deliver the professions of faith on time. Saturday morning, last deadline.
For Christian Suarez, the referent factor, it is 600 additional folds that he recovers on his tour. But he doesn’t like to procrastinate too much:
I believe that the sooner it’s done, the better!
In front of him, a large locker with street numbers and addresses, to classify mail. For me, these are just numbered boxes, but for him, these are very real people that he identifies. That knowledge of the fieldthis allows the factors to detect recipient or address errors and correct them if necessary.
– Milena Aellig
In front of me, it detects an address error and therefore allows a citizen to receive the programs of the twelve candidates in time.
Some customers intercept him on his rounds to ask him if it is normal that they have not yet received their professions of faith. He then reassures them: everything will be delivered before the first round..
Last year, the Post Office had lost the electoral mail market for the regional elections, for the benefit of a private company, Adrexo. A fiasco ensued and nearly 40% of voters waited in vain for the professions of faith. For Christian, it’s simple:
You don’t need to have bac +5, but it’s a real job to be a postman. It does not happen overnight!
Especially since this distribution of programs is also a strong symbolic moment for his job : “we participate, at our level, in the democratic life of our country. So it’s important to us“
A feeling shared by Gwladys Paliotti, director of the Bois-Guillaume mail distribution platform. For her, the award to Adrexo was a disappointment but now”we are going to prove that our postmen are distribution professionals and that this is at the heart of our missions”
She salutes the commitment of its teams to the extra work generated by this particular period but affirms that they have taken the necessary measures: the staff have been trained, the overtime planned, see temporary workers if necessary.
Stressed by the challenge? “Not at all” she assures, “it’s at the heart of our business, it’s all we know how to do and what we do on a daily basis!“