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| Postal, courier services to be back on rails within one week | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Sep 10
The postal and courier services in Jammu which came to a grinding halt due to the two month long agitation are likely to be back on the rails within next one week to 10 days. The Postmaster General, Deepak Budki, today said "we have started clearing the backlog of bundles of letters and parcels which could not be sorted owing to over 60 days shutdown in Jammu."
He said the postal employees especially the postmen were working for longer hours on sorting and delivery of the mail. In reply to a question he said that backlog in the speed post unit of the postal services has been cleared and not a single letter or parcel was pending delivery.
Postmen were seen, since the end of the shutdown on September 1, carrying heavy load of letters and parcels on their bicycles. One of them said "we spend more time in the offices on sorting the mail." He said during the 60 days more than 1100 mail bags had piled in the RMS centre at the Jammu railway station.
Budki said that all mail bags have been sent to the district headquarters and during the last 10 days delivery system has been quite normal.
A manager of a leading courier agency said "it may take two to three days for us to clear the backlog." He said men of these agencies worked till midnight on sorting of the mail and "our employees went on delivering the packets and letters till late evenings which helped us to reduce the level of the backlog."
Both postal and courier agency officials admitted that people had to face difficulties owing to shutdown in the operations of "our services" because of the Bandh but it was all not within our hands to ensure delivery of the mail. |
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