Postal Service in Ruins
The complain has been there in the air for a long time. Perhaps it has not been backed by the same resonance and frequency. That is eminently explainable. Accountability is a meaningless notion in the public sector of this country. Besides, we have become so used to the culture of being robbed of our privileges that we don't care any more.
Country's Postal Department is not the only government office that will never get a certificate from a client on his or her own volition . It's service has been a source of perennial annoyance for any one in need of it. Although there has never been the dearth of dedicated postmen like Dinu daak harkara , the operative system of this office has been subject to degeneracy and corruption of unthinkable proportions over time. Recently a Bangla daily has given insight into the new level of corruption inside the post office that is affecting the clientele and the society in general.
Inordinate delay in the distribution of letters has long gone out of fashion! Neither letters opened all too obviously is a source of bother anymore. Not long ago Gordon Greenidge, country's cricket coach and a bona fides citizen of Bangladesh now, went to the press with his exasperation in this regard. The leading Bangla daily now cites cases where bank drafts are getting lost frequently. How they are being encashed in the market is an altogether different story of corruption in an around the banks, but the allegation aired is a terrible one. The utterly evasive reaction of the newly appointed Post Master General is shocking. We counsel him to view the matter not only as a source of public grievance but also as one of national loss. It may not be in his reach to fix things on his own but there is a lot he can do by his initiative to get the government review the reality.
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