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Daily door-to-door postal delivery earmarked for Orihuela Costa neighbourhoods
The new postal service will benefit residents of Cabo Roig, La Zenia, Campoamor and Mil Palmeras
The days of lost mail and delivery drivers unable to locate communal multi-home mailboxes are soon to be a thing of the past for hundreds of Orihuela Costa residents as the City Council has confirmed a plan to allow several neighbourhoods receive their post directly to their doors.
Just this week, the National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC) has been in touch with Orihuela City Council to begin the process of scrapping communal mailboxes in the urbanisations of Dehesa de Campoamor, Cabo Roig, La Zenia, La Zenia II, La Regia and Mil Palmeras after several years of complaints.
Once the change is implemented, the Orihuela Costa will join the coveted Entrenaranjos urbanisation in Torremendo, near San Miguel de Salinas, which received the long-awaited news last September from the CNMC that more than 2,000 homes and premises in the area will receive their letters direct to their doors.
Up until now, the Commission considered these areas to be ‘special environments’ so individual mail slots on each property weren’t permitted. Instead, residents had to collect their letters from multi-home boxes, often located a good distance away. To make matters worse, the slots are usually tiny so customers are forced to travel to the main post office to collect larger packages.
Such is the continuing case for residents of Playa Flamenca, whose homes haven’t been included on the latest CNMC list, as well as the Montepinar urbanisation a few kilometre from Orihuela, which has been waiting for an individualised postal service for more than eight years.
Back in Orihuela Costa, a firm date hasn’t been released for the implementation of the new bespoke system, but the reversal of the ‘special environment’ label is expected to happen in the next few weeks.
In other news: Council scraps plans to expand Orihuela Costa medical centre
Image: Ayuntamiento de Orihuela
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