Although a few weeks ago Correos even denied what is an open secret, the situation of paralysis in the south of Tenerife -extendable to the entire Canary Islands-, denounced by Workers Commissions (CCOO)the reality is that the dissemination of data and images of the Region’s delivery units has led this public body to accelerate the hiring of personnel in this area.
As this newspaper revealed at the end of October, the main delivery units in the South – Arona, Granadilla de Abona and Adeje – had accumulated 1,600 undelivered packages for weeks. All this according to the data of the Correos itself. Official notifications were 15,000. It is not that the bad situation has dissipated, but that it has evolved unevenly depending on the areas.
The chaos on the eve of Christmas is of such magnitude that the entity has hired 27 people in these three municipalities. Of them, twenty are reinforcements, while five will cover sick leave and another two will cover vacations for other workers.
With these additions, the data on undelivered packages has not been improved, but the data on notifications has been improved. The former have gone from 1,600 to 1,630, while the latter have decreased from 15,000 to 5,050. Ordinary mail, for its part, remains stagnant, with 19,500 letters not reaching their recipients.
The data has also evolved according to the municipalities. It has not been the same in all of them. In Adeje the accumulated packages have gone from 200 to only 30 and in Granadilla – the distribution unit of San Isidro – from 500 to 300. Arona has had worse luck. If before there were 900 undelivered, they are now at 1,300. The hirings, according to data provided by CCOO, in the latter have been eight reinforcements, seven from Adeje and five from Granadilla.
The situation of paralysis has also put Correos in danger of losing large clients who hire its services in the Canary Islands to deliver their parcels. To avoid this, the merchandise of these companies is being marked with red indicators, circles, which establish that these shipments are a priority, despite the fact that agility should be the same for large and small.
Furthermore, and as the unions highlighted yesterday, the lack of planning has meant that some workers do not have office furniture in which to carry out their work.
This is the case of those found in the Puerto Santiago distribution unit, in Santiago del Teide. As the images show, some of the staff who accessed Correos through the consolidation process have had to do so on the floor, as they did not have enough tables and chairs.
In fact, this last case motivated the majority union to present a letter to the Post Office Management at the island level, demanding “an urgent solution.”
