As evidenced by the half-confessions of the occupation “press,” the “local branches” of the so-called “Post of Crimea”, about which we have described the occupiers’ scams numerous times, had begun to shut down in Crimea en masse, with collaborators offering various pretexts for “optimization.”
For example, in occupied Alushta, of the six city “branches,” one, in the Mirny microdistrict, was closed supposedly “due to renovations, and another, on Oktyabrska Street, was transferred “to a larger branch” on Yaltinska Street because “there is no one left to work.”
And in the Alushta village of Sonechnogorske (Kuru-Uzen), a truly bizarre story unfolded: аirst, the local “post office” was closed, allegedly “due to the building’s dilapidated condition,” but local “authorities” claimed “repairs had been completed,” after which the “Post of Crimea” simply refused to “rent the building.”
Overall, the main real reason for the mass closure of “post offices” was a “staff shortage,” caused by “fantastic postal carrier salaries” of no more than 20,000 rubles per month.
Meanwhile, the “regional authorities” are demanding that the problem be “solved” locally, a striking example of which was the tragi-comic situation in the Kerch village of Batalne (Arma-Eli).
There, the occupiers held a forced “citizens’ assembly,” where they began to blackmail the villagers, claiming “the economic infeasibility of operating the post office due to the reduction in the number of services provided.”
“Assistant and advisory personnel” arriving from Simferopol demanded that the population “subscribe more” to the occupiers’ printed propaganda, “receive their pensions at the post office,” and pay their “utilities” there.
However, both local residents and “authority” representatives made no secret of the fact that this “branch rescue” measure was a mere formality in the current situation.
