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The decision comes one week after Posta Moldovei stopped the distribution of periodicals to subscribers, invoking the need to provide only ‘emergency services’ in the context of the coronavirus pandemic, such as ensuring that citizens receive pensions and social benefits.
‘Last Friday we made a risky decision, but we do understand that we need to help periodicals to get to citizens, and we decided that beginning with this week we will be delivering them’, stated Vitalie Zaharia, the acting Director General of the enterprise, for Media Azi.
He added that the enterprise was not obliged by the Commission for Emergency Situations to resume the distribution of newspapers. ‘We do not have a direct order to resume the distribution print media, but we want to do this because we want citizens to receive newspapers and magazines’, explained the acting Director General.
The manager stated that so far, the employees of the enterprise have been concerned with providing pensions to citizens. ‘We are also on the front line, like police officers and doctors, because we go to places where outbreaks are registered and we must go even to localities placed in quarantine. That is why the psychological status and the morale are low on the inside. People are afraid. Postal workers do not have immunity to Covid-19. We are humans too, we risk, and, regretfully, we also have people who are hospitalized. We are facing an outbreak and by distributing the pensions and the print media we expose ourselves’, said Vitalie Zaharia.
According to him, although Posta Moldovei took the risk to distribute print media to the citizens, if the Commission for Emergency Situations orders to stop the provision of postal services, the enterprise will have to obey. Previously, various editorial offices said they could not print newspapers and magazines because the distributors would not deliver them to readers and subscribers.
