Edition 189
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Friday, October 3, 2014
PLEASE MR. POSTMAN...
...If there’s a letter in your bag for me, can I get it at home? By ALEX TRELINSKI and TONY MAYES Around 100 Orihuela Costa residents braved last Saturday’s bad weather to take to the streets of Playa Flamenca to protest against the removal of direct door postal deliveries to large parts of the area. From the beginning of September, people living in La R e g i a , Campoamor, Cabo Roig, and La Zenia have had to travel to Playa Flamenca to pick up their post if they are not part of a community mail box arrangement. Representatives from the major local political parties and local community groups gathered outside the Correos office in Playa Flamenca to vent their anger and concern over the cutbacks as well as fears that more restrictions may be in the pipeline across a wider area.
The acting Mayor of Orihuela, Antonio Zapata, said he had come to show solidarity with the people affected by the measure saying:- “They pay taxes like anybody else and have the right to quality services”. Zapata added that prompted by CLARO councillor, Bob Houliston and coastal councillor, Martina Scheurer, Orihuela Town Hall had embarked on legal action a g a i n s t Correos to r e v e r s e S e p t e m b e r ’s changes. In a statement, CLARO said: "The need for possibly thousands of residents to go weekly to the Playa Flamenca post office to collect their mail before it is returned to the central post office is causing considerable inconvenience. There is no justified reason for curtailing home deliveries in an integrated urban area like the Orihuela Costa which is a city in itself with 35,000 registered residents, equal to the population of Orihuela City.”
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