As the OÖN reported, the postal partner in the tourist office will close at the end of June. The center of Vöcklabruck would be without a post office again. A private initiative has now collected more than 550 signatures within a few days to obtain a postal partner in the center.
Deputy Mayor Elisabeth Kölblinger supports this demand and proposes to the city council that the municipality itself should become a postal partner. “This is not an unusual construction,” says Kölblinger, citing the communities of Puchkirchen, Ohlsdorf and Kirchham as examples.
Kölblinger also has very specific suggestions: The city should take over the employees of the current postal partner, enable additional integrative employment in cooperation with the Lebenshilfe and rent vacant rooms in the center. “Where there is a will, there is a way,” said the ÖVP politician.
In recent years, numerous residential buildings have been built in a central location. An end to this lively construction activity is not yet in sight, explains Kölblinger. However, the residents also need appropriate local supplies. “Especially for our older fellow citizens, the way to the Varena is difficult, if not an insurmountable barrier, especially if they don’t have a car,” says Kölblinger. If the center of a district capital no longer has a post office, it needs at least one postal partner.
Source: Nachrichten
