Dear Editor,

I wonder if you or your readers could throw some light on why mail to and from Guyana is taking so long to arrive. There was a time when you could count on surface mail taking just over two weeks and airmail would take just over a week and on occasions four or five days.

I sent five booklets to five different addresses in Guyana by airmail in the first week of October and yet two of them failed to arrive before December.  At the time, I blamed the delay on the amount of Christmas mail.

On January 26, 2009, I again posted five booklets to addresses in Guyana.  They were sent by airmail and yet twenty-four days later not one has arrived.  I have asked Royal Mail to investigate the matter from this end but I would really like to know why the postal service in Guyana is not providing the excellent service it used to give.

Yours faithfully,
D Howells

Editor’s note

We are sending a copy of this letter to the Postmaster General, Ms Mayglen Adams, for any comments she might wish to make.