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The state home postal service to half a dozen residential areas in the Vega Baja town was stopped in 2014
Residents living on six Orihuela Costa urbanisations have teamed up with the Town Hall to demand Spain's state postal service Correos reinstate home postal deliveries.
Correos stopped the service to these particular residential areas in 2014. Now the local authority has sent a letter with technical reports to the National Commission for Markets and Competition (CNMC) calling for Correos to revoke the decision.
Eight years ago, Correos asked the CNMC to declare the urbanisations of Mil Palmeras, Dehesa de Campoamor, La Zenia, La Zenia II, La Regia and Cabo Roig as "special environments" and on May 8 2014 it issued a resolution to stop home deliveries to these areas.
Since then, affected residents have had to go to the post office in Playa Flamenca to collect any post.
In February of this year, town officials Modesto Veloso, David González and Fermín González requested various technical reports from the local council to build a case for the return of home postal deliveries.
Mr Veloso, resident and Mayor of La Zenia, pointed out that "this is a discrimination that the residents of these urbanisations have been suffering because the council in its day did not know how to defend the interests of its residents against the actions of Correos".
"We are prepared to do whatever it takes to ensure that justice is done and that hundreds of residents do not have to travel every week to the post office in Playa Flamenca to check if we have any post."
Meanwhile, councillor Luisa Boné said that reports have been collected from the municipal census service and Hidraqua, awarded the drinking water maintenance service, to highlight the "idiosyncrasy of our coastline and dismantle the arguments put forward by Correos based on the number of registered residents in these urbanisations".
She pointed out that the number of registered residents does not correspond to the number of people who actually live in the area.
"A report was requested from the Urbanism and Planning Service which shows that Orihuela Costa is a consolidated urban nucleus and cannot be considered as a group of isolated and independent urbanisations. For this reason, the declaration of a special environment is not appropriate," she said.
And the head of Orihuela's planning department, José Aix, has pledged that "the council is not going to stand idly by and wait for a response from Correos", and has requested Alicante Provincial Council "support the interests of Orihuela residents".
Image: Ayuntamiento de Orihuela
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