Auction of the post office in Liberec - Vesec will not take place next week, no one has applied

The auction of the closed branch of the Czech Post in the Liberec district of Vesec will not take place next week, it was reported today on the Czech Post website. No one has signed up for the auction, so the post office has announced another round, the sixth round of the electronic auction. Despite the lack of interest from buyers, the price will not change; the Czech Post wants at least CZK 8.7 million for the branch with two flats. This is the first of 13 closed branches in the Liberec Region that Česká pošta is offering in the auction. The Liberec management considers the price to be unreasonably high.

The house is located on the main road next to the primary school near the bus stop. There is also a small garden on the 524 sqm plot. In addition to the now vacant post office, the house has two rented 1+1 and 3+1 apartments on the first floor. The building is approximately 125 years old, has a basement and an attic. According to the expert, the building is well preserved. "The starting price was determined on the basis of an expert opinion," Ivo Vysoudil, spokesman for the Czech Post, said earlier.

Liberec has not yet joined the auction, although councillors decided last year that the city would seek the buildings of the closed branches in Vesec and also in Švermova Street in Františkov and near Vápenka. "In our judgment, it is expensive," said Deputy Mayor Adam Lenert (ANO). He thinks the corresponding price would be a third to half lower. For comparison, he said the municipality gave CZK 12.5 million to a private owner for a residential building with six flats in Na Žižkově Street last autumn, so the price of the Vesec branch is unreasonable from the municipality's point of view.

Last July, the Czech Post closed nearly 300 branches in the country due to cost-cutting measures, leaving 2,900 and laying off about 1,500 people. The post office argued that the demand for traditional postal services was declining and wanted to mitigate its losses by reducing the number of branches and laying off some employees. In the Liberec region, 13 branches closed at the beginning of last year's holiday season, most of them in the regional capital, where the post office closed six, including the second largest in OC Globus. Three post offices were lost in Česká Lípa, two in Jablonec nad Nisou and one each in Turnov and Rokytnice nad Jizerou.

Source: Czech Post and CTK