Bpost boss Jean-Paul Van Avermaet said three times on November 4, when the lockdown was already underway, that he did not expect a new parcel peak.
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That’s what Michael Freilich, N-VA Member of Parliament, said in parliament this afternoon. Freilich spoke about mismanagement by the top of Bpost. Van Avermaet made the statements to analysts who follow Bpost. They asked him several times what he expected as a result of the new lockdown in Belgium, which forced ordinary trade to close.
In the telephone explanation between Van Avermaet and the analysts, Van Avermaet literally says that he does not expect an upsurge. ‘The growth of the parcel flow will probably remain as it was. We do not expect a new jump, ‘said Van Avermaet.
“Hallucinating to hear that he says three times that he does not expect a big peak while the lockdown was already a fact,” says Freilich. Two weeks later, Bpost had to conclude that day after day new records were being broken. On Wednesday evening, Van Avermaet said in the Terzake news program ‘that no one had expected a second wave’.
“We want a hearing with Van Avermaet, the ombudsman and with the trade,” said Freilich. The member of parliament invited his colleagues in parliament to listen to Bpost’s conference call for themselves. Earlier this week in parliamentary committee, the Vilvadi parties rejected the call for a hearing.
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