The lack of fuel is forcing Correos de Sancti Spíritus to resort even to medical transport and school buses to distribute printed media, amidst difficulties that cause delays of one or more days in the delivery of newspapers to readers.
A station from Sancti Spíritus reported this Thursday that Correos is experiencing irregularities in distribution due to a shortage of fuel needed to collect the press from the Poligráfico in Santa Clara and subsequently transport it to the province.
Yoelvis Espinosa Cabrera, Deputy Director of Correos in Sancti Spíritus, explained that the company is assigned to collect the newspapers every Tuesday in Santa Clara.
Once they arrive in the territory of Sancti Spíritus, the entity needs to rely on resources belonging to other organizations to distribute them to the various municipalities.
"To distribute it to the municipalities, they rely on other companies," the broadcaster later specified in another post regarding the operation of the service.
Espinosa detailed that among the means used are school transport buses, other available vehicles, and even medical cars.
Once the copies arrive at each municipality, the usual distribution begins through the postal workers from the different units.
The main problem arises when there is no fuel to make the trip to Santa Clara.
In such cases, the collection should be postponed, and the press may arrive one or two days late.
The executive acknowledged that there have been instances when the newspapers do not arrive throughout the week and remain pending until the next, although he assured that this is not the norm.
"That case has occurred, but it is not common. What is common is that on the day it is delayed, it doesn't get delayed by many days: Wednesday or Thursday at the latest, that's what almost always happens. But yes, it has happened, very rarely," he explained.
The challenges in transporting newspapers arise after this year’s resource crisis forced a drastic reduction in the printing and circulation of print media in Cuba.
Since March 2, Granma and Juventud Rebelde have been printed only once a week, on Tuesdays and with eight pages, while provincial newspapers have ceased to circulate in print format.
Among the causes mentioned at that time were the lack of paper, fuel, and financial resources, but the problem goes deeper: the Cuban printing industry is facing a structural crisis, characterized by a shortage of supplies, technological deterioration, and financial constraints that the authorities have been unable to reverse.
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