After the Government made it official that it will move forward with the deregulation of the postal service, the unions came out to reject the measure announced by the presidential spokesperson, Manuel Adorni. Given the justifications of the ruling party, the general secretary of the Federation of Postal and Telecommunications Workers and Employees (FOECyT), Alberto Cejasassured that the company “It has already started to have profits, it has now started to have a surplus“.
According to Decree 1005/2024, published by the administration of Javier Milei, the measure seeks to “promote free competition and elimination of bureaucratic decisions that restrict the supply of goods and services“However, Cejas defended the position of the employees and the company and stated that the decision does not seek to strengthen the company “but on the contrary, it intends to lower it to deliver it cheaper.”
Privatization of Correo Argentino: the company claims that they have a surplus
The government of Javier Milei seeks to advance with its model of privatization and deregulation in a new sector. This time, the policies of the Minister of Deregulation and State Transformation, Federico Sturzenegger, seek to liberalize postal activity and privatize the Correo Argentino company.
After learning of the Government’s announcement, Cejas strongly crossed Milei’s star minister and explained: “What I don’t understand about the Government is that if it really wants to privatize it, with the effort that the workers have made, in two months, via voluntary withdrawals, this company has already made profits“.
Furthermore, the union member denounced: “There is no attempt to strengthen it, but on the contrary, HE intends to lower it to deliver it cheaper. “As of August, the company is producing a surplus.”
On the other hand, Cejas also assured that “Argentine market has been deregulated for 30 years“. “It is not true that it added operators to the market, there were only two or three. If you look at the Enacom website, there are 1,400 registered service providers and we don’t even know how many are clandestine.”
Regarding the data given by Sturzenegger in a long post on the social network X, Cejas denied what was shared by the official. “The Argentine Mail is capturing and distributing in 3.5 million packages per month. The truth is that I honestly don’t know where the data comes from or is it a staging for subsequent privatization”.
“These companies that come to set up shop to do mail business, They are only going to do it in big cities, but in places that are not profitable they are not going to go.“, warned the general secretary of FOECyT in reference to a possible privatization.
Deregulation of the postal service
The controversy over the administration of the state company Correo Argentino came after presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni announced, on Monday, that the Government will move forward with the deregulation of the postal service. “The Government has made the decision to deregulate the postal service. With this measure we will achieve more competition, greater digitization and better security in postal mattersAdorni said.
The initiative will be carried out by the portfolio led by Sturzenegger that will work together with the Secretariat of Innovation, Science and Technology. In this sense, the Government stressed that the objective will be “promote transparency, simplification, digitalization and greater security of the service“.
Currently, the State is the sole shareholder of the company Correo Argentinowhich encompasses a network of 1,400 branches and post offices throughout the country. In 2023, the company recorded a deficit of $71,322 million. At the beginning of this year, the Government sent $90,000 million to advance with a plan of voluntary withdrawals.
By law, the company is responsible for Universal Basic Service (SBU), which implies that it is obliged to offer service in all parts of Argentina with a certain frequency now “an affordable price“. It delivers postal, monetary and telegraphy services. Previously, the company was left out of the list of privatizable state companies that was approved in the Bases law, like Aerolíneas Argentinas and Radio y Televisión Argentina.
Source: Ambito
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