With the holding of the general elections in the middle of the summer season, the request for voting by mail has skyrocketed and Correos has confirmed this Thursday that it has already formalized 20,240 reinforcement contracts for the development of activities related to voting by mail for the s Comics of July 23.
In a statement, the postal entity assures that it will continue hiring “all the troops that are necessary to guarantee” the vote by mail for 23-J. Add that in these reinforcement contracts you have taken into account the increase in the number of applications for voting by mail received and the coincidence of the electoral period with the summer holidays.
Regarding this last matter, Correos has informed that it has also covered all the vacations of the staff during the month of July. The postal company recalls that the contracts have been used to reinforce all its services, such as customer service in offices, the distribution network and delivery of shipments, transport and logistics centers, which includes the Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas airport for the management of international shipments.
Extraordinary openings on Saturdays
In this sense, more than 30% of the employees who had planned their vacations this month have voluntarily requested to delay them to be available during the campaign, which indicates, in the company’s opinion, “the high level of commitment of the workforce Post Office with the public service”.
The company has also made extensions of hours in 274 offices, especially in areas where the greatest influx is expected, such as tourist areas, a measure that may be extended to more offices in the coming days, depending on the needs. Extraordinary openings are also contemplated on non-working days such as Saturdays and holidays.
In fact, last Saturday, July 8, 225 offices were opened in towns in Catalonia, Andalusia, the Valencian Community, Murcia and the Balearic Islands and it is expected that next Saturday, July 15, they will open extraordinarily, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., 2,061 offices throughout Spain.
The opening will be exclusively to meet the needs of citizens related to the electoral process (delivery of notified electoral documentation and admission of voting by mail). These time extensions and extraordinary openings may be extended depending on how the postal voting process evolves in the coming days.
