Dear Editor,
It is good that government is identifying ways and means to become more efficient and cost-effective in the use of its material and human resources.
In reflecting on its intention to implement a process of ‘reusing envelopes’, I wish to suggest that our government goes even further by reducing/removing the use of envelopes altogether through the following:
- Increase the use of ‘soft-mail’/e-mail which would not only obviate the need for envelopes, but save paper and time and the cost of hand-delivery;
- Consider the pros/cons of phone calls versus written mail; this might not go down well in a civil service culture of CYA, but we should never resist cultural shifts.
- In those cases where paper must be used such papers can be stapled with the addressees ‘label-pasted’ appropriately.
With apologies for any appearance of preaching to the converted.
Yours faithfully,
Nowrang Persaud
