Following a pattern set by the new state sugar company, the government is planning to slim down Empresa Correos de Cuba and turn it into a decentralized enterprise group of 18 provincial services by the middle of next year, official business weekly Opciones reported.

The new postal service will also include divisions for express package service, domestic and international remittances, and insurance. 

The Opciones article described the current institution — which includes 13,600 employees, 1,015 offices, 16 processing centers, and 54 distribution centers — as an “antiquated mega structure that blocks its own development.”

A Correos official said cutbacks at the central administration had already begun and that the postal administration within the Ministry of Communications and Informatics will be dissolved. The article didn’t specify the number of layoffs.

As part of a large economic reform package, the Communist Party Congress in April decided to grant state companies more autonomy and reduce government ministries’ scope to a regulatory role. Earlier this month, the government shut down the sugar ministry and created a state sugar company.

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