Dear Editor,

The Guyana Post Office Corporation joins a list of companies that have introduced a dress code for customers and employees entering their buildings. I am really puzzled what the objective behind this new move is intended to achieve. A visit to the National Cultural Centre whenever there is a comedy show and patrons are asked to comply with a dress code will surprise you at the behaviour of some of these decently clad persons.

In the developed world people dress to suit the climate eg during summer, customers are clad in all sorts of clothing (which these local establishments would condemn) but they are not refused entry as the bottom line is money. I am pleased and not surprised that our commercial banks have not also gone paranoid with a dress code. I would like to make an observation that by virtue of its location and varied services the corporation offers, many persons find the off pavement entry convenient and the pensioners at month end with their rubber slippers “slip” into the post office to cash their Old Age Pension. Ironically a cobbler is situated at the northern entrance.

One’s dress no longer identifies one’s character and even the churches have adapted to a comfortable adornment of its members. It is what is in our hearts that which can’t be seen that really sets us apart.

Yours faithfully,

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