Correios sends 20 tons of donations to victims of storms in SP

The Post Office announced this Thursday (23) that it will send about 20 tons of donations to families displaced by the storms that hit the north coast of São Paulo last weekend. The items are postal objects classified by the state-owned company as junk, when they have undergone repeated attempts to deliver to the recipients, without success, and were not sought by the senders, nor by the recipients within 90 days, according to the deadline for complaints provided for in the Code of Defense of the Consumer.

In all, there are 20,957 discarded items such as school and office materials, children’s clothing and household utensils, informed Agência Brasil. They are being sorted by Postal Service employees and will be handed over to Civil Defense bodies and city halls in the region later this week, to be distributed free of charge to victims of heavy rains.

This Thursday morning, 40 collapsible containers left the capital of São Paulo for the north coast of São Paulo and are expected to be delivered by the end of this afternoon. Transport is carried out by special lines and the Correios Press Office guarantees that “they do not have an impact on the regular distribution service of letters and parcels of the state-owned company”.

The president of Correios, Fabiano Silva, accompanied the delivery of the first donations of refuse, at the company’s headquarters in São Paulo, and highlighted the relevance of the delivery: “This is a very important action that Correios is now carrying out to help the victims of this terrible calamity that hit the coast of São Paulo”.

In addition to donations of waste items, Post Office branches in the state of São Paulo are at the disposal of federal, state and municipal authorities to collect and transport donations to those affected by the rains.

According to Correios, the company already carries out the “Correios Express Solidarity” action. The initiative, nationwide, transports donations free of charge to victims of regions in an emergency situation or public calamity, officially decreed, on any day of the week and at any time.