Socialist deputies, elected by the constituency of Faro, alerted the Minister of Infrastructure and Housing to the need to reverse the closure of the Postal Distribution Center (CDP) of CTT, in Monchique, and your consequent transfer to Portimão.
In the question put to Pedro Nuno Santos, the parliamentarians begin by recalling that «news of the closure of CTT stations and protests by the population and their mayors for the closure of multiple distribution centers are common, and negative assessments of the degradation of indicators are known. of the quality of the postal service provided by CTT, as evidenced in Anacom's reports».
Luís Graça, Jamila Madeira, Joaquina Matos, Ana Passos and Francisco Oliveira refer that, in the municipality of Monchique, «the beginning of the year 2021 was marked by the warning of the mayors of the Socialist Party» for the closure of the Postal Distribution Center and its transfer to the municipality of Portimão.
In this regard, the Municipal Council of Monchique unanimously approved a motion in defense of CTT services in this municipality, proposed by the elected representatives of the PS, which highlighted the negative implications of the closure of this service, «namely in the degradation of deadlines for mail distribution and in the predictable increase in losses and returns”.
"It does not seem acceptable to us, given the effort that the Government has made to positively differentiate the interior territories and to combat human desertification of low density territories, aiming at a more balanced, fairer and more sustainable development of the country, than a company concessionaire of a public service essential to the population, withdraw from this collective effort and abandon precisely this part of Portugal which is already the most unprotected, isolated and needy», defend the PS deputies.
These parliamentarians also underline that CTT, "as a concessionary company of the universal postal service, is obliged to ensure compliance with a set of obligations established by law and in the concession contract", so they consider it to be "evident that the termination of the service of postal distribution from Monchique and its transfer to Portimão will imply a clear deterioration in the conditions for the provision of these services'.
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