In Thursday July 21, La Poste announced a major change to its mail range on January 1, 2023.
The main points are :
1, the abolition of the Priority Letter (red stamp), which becomes a “red e-Letter”: mail can be sent by e-mail on the laposte.fr website up to 8 p.m., printed by La Poste in the recipient’s local mail center and delivered the following morning “in an envelope bearing a red stamp design”. This means the creation of a new PAP model, not sold blank to the public.
This new “red e-Letter” will be billed at €1.49, compared with €1.43 (for this price, La Poste provides the paper and envelope!).
2, the green letter will be delivered in 3 days instead of the current 2. But unlike in previous years, the price will not increase on January1. (At least for the 20 G letter; the press release does not specify other rates).
3, the “Lettre Turquoise Services Plus” was created. It enables important documents to be sent on D+2 without having to go through the recommendation process. A PRIORI will be a Marianne stamp with a unique Datamatrix code, turquoise in color, like the Marianne stamps of this type that already exist. The basic price (assuming 20 G) will be €2.95. The Datamatrix code will provide tracking notification, pick-up in your own mailbox when the letter carrier passes, and ” flat-rate compensation in the event of excessive delivery delays “.
4, the price of registered mail will increase on January1, as will Colissimo rates (except for the basic rate).
The visual below (provided by Yves Lehmann) summarizes these provisions.
I am also enclosing the press release issued this morning, which can be forwarded to anyone who wishes to receive it.
One final point: we don’t yet know at what price La Poste will value the red Marianne without face value, which we imagine will continue to be valid for postage. We can assume that, as with the elimination of the 50g Marianne, they will be valued at the current price of €1.43. To be confirmed by La Poste!
La Poste points out that this change, which had not been made since the creation of the Green Letter (20 years ago, I believe), follows surveys of 22,000 customers, for whom the reliability criterion is more important than the urgency criterion, given the evolution of e-mail exchanges.
The mail range will therefore comprise three aspects: ” urgent items, everyday items and important items.
The press release is also silent on the future of the ecopli, which we do not yet know will be maintained.
