Some see it as a gas plant, others the chronicle of an announced failure.
The "red e-letter", which replaces the priority letter, leaves more than one perplexed.
From January 1st, however, this will be the only way for your shipment to be delivered on D + 1.
To use it, you have several options.
Either go to the Laposte.fr website and then to the “Send mail online” section.
You can then import your document, write it on a word processing interface or use one of some 200 letter templates.
Either go to a post office where a customer service representative will scan the contents of the letter.
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The missive will be printed within the regional sorting platform closest to the recipient “in spaces with secure access and restricted to duly authorized and trained persons” to ensure the strictest confidentiality assures La Poste.
Then put in an envelope and injected into the classic distribution circuit.
Envelope and paper provided
Cost of this service?
From 1.49 euros for a maximum of three pages, to be sent before 8 p.m. so that the promise of D + 1 is respected.
Or 6 cents more than the price of the red stamp in 2022. But the envelope and the paper are provided, argues the Post Office.
For color printing, the option is 30 cents and tracked shipping will cost 50 cents more.
A curious concept mocked by many Internet users who believe that the Post Office is reinventing the fax.
Or that she wants to charge 1.49 euros… a simple email.
The end of the red stamp will “further impoverish the civilization of writing through the programmed end of handwritten letters, worries even more seriously on Twitter Senator Bruno Retailleau (the Republicans).
A loss for epistolary works.
“Many union representatives of the Post, like Marie-Hélène Davos of the FO-Com Federation, believe that this new service will” isolate a little more 13 million French people who are in
illectronism
“.
“This offer is more in the field of display than a response to a real need, tackles Alain Bard, CGT federal correspondent for postal activities.
La Poste can communicate by saying that it maintains the offer at D + 1 but, in fact, this is not really the case.
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For sending checks or original documents urgently, it will indeed be necessary either to go through the turquoise letter “service plus”, created on January 1, 2023. But this will be a discount on D + 2 and a price of… 2, 95 euros.
Either opt for Chronopost, a subsidiary of the group, which offers express shipping on D + 1. The bill will then be even higher.