Friday, September 16, 2011

No EMS to Metropolitan France ? One of two incongruities on the rate-page of the Thai Post


  The picture shows  various options for sending a parcel to France : 1- France, 1 - France again ( the same page of rates, this additional choice is a misleading redundancy ), 2 -France Metropolitan, 3 - French Guiana, 4 - French Polynesia, 5 - French Southern and Antarctic Territories.

Since several years the France Metropolitan rate page shows no EMS option, although this option is on the France rate page : 
Probably the word Metropolitan was understood in some process in the reverse sense : as territories or islands or whatever which is not the mainland; or in " non metropolitan " the " non " would have been accidentally deleted;  but then why the choices 3, 4 an 5 ?

[ Add. In 2013 the correction has not yet been made.]

As I was told on the phone by employees of the Thai post that their French partner ( French Post, or Chronopost I presume ) was responsible for not accepting EMS in the metropolitan France in signed conventions I suggested that someone at the Thai post could verify the meaning of " metropolitan " and take action so that the choice "Metropolitan France" be removed as it is from the postal rate page and users of the post would avoid unintended activities that are time and money consuming.
 By the same token one of the two identical choices : France , could also  be removed. [Add. that has been done finally after some time ]

No post in the world offer the choice of a "Metropolitan France" not served by EMS : all post offices abroad identify the metropolitan France as France.

I emailed the address of this post
on 16 September 2011 to postalcare@thailandpost.co.th and through their request form. Their French partners La Poste and Chronopost don't have email addresses.


On the right a map representing Metropolitan France;









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