Is postal department becoming redundant?
Thursday, 5 March 2009
I read a report in the papers which suggested that the postal system in our country had become almost redundant. Is it true? I can understand that the advent of mobile phone and easy accessibility for speaking to people stationed abroad and the massive use of the internet for information exchange have rendered the postal system near obsolete. So is this the end of the line for the post offices in our country. I suppose a few people still send documents, letters, cards and parcels through this age-old service but there is another new entry into the field-courier services-that is whittling away to probably obliterate the operating area of our postal system some time in the near future.
What a way to go. The audio 'records' (78 rpm, 33 rpm and so on) gave way to cassettes and then to compact discs (CDs). One felt a bit nostalgic about the records and some people even keep an antique set. People in the villages still use the audio cassette but they are on their way out.
But that an entire system has been rendered near useless is something that takes time to swallow. As a child I learnt to write letters to relatives and friends and even made pen friends. There was excitement in the act, of sending the letter to a far-off land or to receive one from there. Nowadays, 'foreign' is less fascinating because of television and all that travelling that people do. So is it goodbye post office? Well, we still pay some bills through them so they may be around for a while I guess.
Imdad Hossain
Halishohor
Chittagong
What a way to go. The audio 'records' (78 rpm, 33 rpm and so on) gave way to cassettes and then to compact discs (CDs). One felt a bit nostalgic about the records and some people even keep an antique set. People in the villages still use the audio cassette but they are on their way out.
But that an entire system has been rendered near useless is something that takes time to swallow. As a child I learnt to write letters to relatives and friends and even made pen friends. There was excitement in the act, of sending the letter to a far-off land or to receive one from there. Nowadays, 'foreign' is less fascinating because of television and all that travelling that people do. So is it goodbye post office? Well, we still pay some bills through them so they may be around for a while I guess.
Imdad Hossain
Halishohor
Chittagong