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Tesla sues Sweden over postal strike (www.dw.com)

submitted 7 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/europe@feddit.de

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[–] elvith@feddit.de 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As far as I know the situation is:

Tesla wants/needs license plates
government issues license plates and tries to send them via mail to Tesla
workers strike and don't deliver mail to Tesla, which means license plates don't arrive at Tesla - and only specifically at Tesla
government has an exclusive contract, that only allows them to use that one postal service, so they can't provide an alternative (assuming the workers there wouldn't strike, too)
government doesn't allow pick up of license plates

Tesla challenges the very last point - Why can no one (not only Tesla) just go and pick them up? Why is there a need to explicitly mail them?

[–] albert180@feddit.de 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Because the Law stipulates that it's send via Mail

[–] lud@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, and they use that specific postal company because it's the biggest in Sweden and is government owned.

[–] albert180@feddit.de 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But the Government has nothing to do with the workers on strike

[–] lud@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

No, but I will admit that Tesla should be allowed to go and physically collect the licence plates themselves. Otherwise it would be like the government is encouraging the strike which is not ideal when they shouldn't be involved at all.

And a court also decided that yesterday.

[–] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No it doesnt, it's not law. That's just how they decided to do it, and is why Tesla just won an injunction forcing them to allow pickup

[–] albert180@feddit.de 3 points 7 months ago

Yes my bad. The Contractor was contractually obliged to use that company, that's a difference. You are right