Petro Poroshenko met with the head of Ukrposhta Ihor Smilyansky and advised him to revise his salary and to stop… firing postmen. According to the President, this work is not just the delivery of newspapers or pensions. For the elderly people, this may be the only connection with the outside world. Further – in reactions from DUMKA.
In his address to Ihor Smiliansky, the President stressed that the closure of post offices in rural areas must be immediately stopped. Moreover, the introduction of 500 million USD to the state budget was initiated, in its turn, it would cover pensions’ delivery expenditures of Ukrposhta. According to Petro Poroshenko, this very money will enable the increase of postmen’s salary as well as protect them. The Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Volodymyr Omelyan will monitor the implementation of this Presidential proposal.
However, on the network, such an initiative was welcomed quite cold. For example, MP from the Radical Party Ihor Mosiychuk characterized actions of the President as imitation, adding that resolution of postmen’s problems was urged for two months already by… well, of course, by Oleh Lyashko. In general, this is an old “radical” tradition, everything that the President and MPs do have already been proposed by Lyashko. There’s no way around it.
However, the political expert Olexiy Minakov treated the initiative of Petro Poroshenko more critically and made a conditional sarcastic matching list of what President can do, and what he cannot. For example, it wasn’t possible for Poroshenko to fire Semochko or to stop compensating Akhmetov from the budget for supplying electricity to the occupied territories, or at least to impose sanctions against Medvedchuk, who is a friend of the Russian President.
President also got his portion from a blogger Serhii Marchenko, who at first highlighted the proposal about wages revision drawn up by Poroshenko to the head of Ukrposhta. In the author’s opinion, when you’re hiring a top-manager, it’s better not to tell him what exactly and how he should do. And if his services cost too much, you can always appoint to this post… your driver.
But not by criticism alone lives network. The first jokes have appeared. For example, the one about a postman who knocks three times: “Army! Language! Faith!” (Slogan of the Presidential party – translator’s note) Well, how can it be, you haven’t heard this joke?
Obviously, the majority of users were surprised not by the proposal to reduce the salary of Ukrposhta’s head or settling down the issue with postmen, but by the presence of powers to initiate such decisions in Poroshenko’s disposition. As a precaution, the network has also begun to make humorous decrees against the postmen’s firing. Well, what about me? I also order, how you can get on without me?
And don’t forget, my kitters that firing of a postman can have a negative impact on your health.
Reactions and local newspapers were collected by Stepan the Postman
