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Brazil’s Post Office Will Close on Saturdays to Reduce Costs

By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter

SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – With the dwindling economy and the popularization of online communication Brazil’s Correios (Postal Service) has been losing customers. To try to increase revenues and reduce expenditures the state-owned company announced this week it will adopt several measures including no longer opening most of its agencies on Saturdays. The measure will begin next Saturday, March 19th.

“Only with the help and commitment of all will it be possible to reverse the scenario,” said Correios President, Giovanni Queiroz. “But I believe that a company this size, with 120,000 employees . . .

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