Dear Editor,
The response by the Postmaster General in your letter column of Friday 18 January makes interesting reading.
Taken seriatim, first of all this writer made specific reference to posting parcels (like a book) locally, that is across Georgetown for starters.
If, in fact, the exercise involves ‘other agencies’, there should be an appropriate notice to the effect – much better than to have the local station go through the motions of receiving, then having to advise (posthumously) that the package could not fit into the inanely small (outdoor) post-box.
Exposure to this experience hardly indicates any degree of professionalism of the employees involved, including the manner of communication.
In a rush towards obfuscation, the reference to ethnicity is obviously misinterpreted. The fact is that there are those customers who have known much better uniformed postmen in the past, which attracted an impressive level of candidates for employment in the service.
The portrayal of the mobile (bicycle) employees in the most unprepossessing outfits, hardly comparable with those of other agencies, constitutes a disincentive to prospective candidates who are educationally equipped to prioritise their employment options.
There are those of us who know much more of the quality of the Postal Service in the colonial era than its current newcomers.
But some enlightenment can be gained by even a Chief Executive ‘walking the floor’.
Yours faithfully,
(Name and address supplied)
