Reasons not given for Poczta Polska council dismissals

The Infrastructure Ministry has dismissed six members of the Polish postal s ervice (Poczta Polska)'s governing council. The remaining three members, who had been nominated for their posts by postal employees, kept their positions . "In a dismissal letter we received on Friday the ministry did not justify their decision to make the changes," said the head of the board, Piotr Gawel . "We are very surprised, as we got along well both with the management of P oczta Polska and the Infrastructure Ministry...We tried to obtain a justific ation from the ministry's spokesperson, but she failed to reply to the messa ge we left her." Rumor has it that Poczta Polska management and the board we re on bad terms, which reached a climax with the recent tender on fuel for t he postal service. The tenure of the dismissed members began in 2000 and was supposed to end in 2003. The decision on the dismissal would not have been p ossible without a recent amendment to the law governing Poczta Polska. (Rzec zpospolita, June 8-9, p. B2) A.Z.