Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore, MothereTeresa, Indira
Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi etc are
among the greats whose portraits are used as stamps by India Post. The stamp
collection was a meaningful hobby then. Now,
by permitting even a crook to picture him on Indian postal stamp for a price,
stamp collection hobby has become a damp squib. The sanctity of Indian postal stamp is lost.
Of late,
the service of Indian postal department is unpromising. The letters and other
articles are not delivered in time. The
efficiency of delivering letter on the very next day in any part of the
country has become a past story. The complaints sent to postal authorities are
unattended or little attended. The adalaths in this regard by postal department
have become a hollow gesture as the turn out for these athalaths is meagre. It is not because of the lack of
complaints from consumers but of the wastage of time and money. No complaint is
attended and rectified with client’s satisfaction.
The postal
boxes installed here and there have disappeared one by one. There is no
clearance of letters in the FN and AN.
Thus in all respects the postal department has distanced from the
general public. The staff in this department alone could not be blamed for
this. It is the wrong policy of the central government that lead the department
to such a appalling state. So, in that context the personalised stamp system is
a futile gesture as takers for this is only a little.
It is may be true that the internet
has reduced the habit of writing letters. But it doesn’t mean that the number of
postal articles are reduced. One cannot send a hard copy ofa communication or a parcel through e-mail. It
can be done only through post. In an era of online trading couriers are making a huge
profit by delivering articles in any part of the world whereas the Indian
postal department, instead of attracting people with good service, resorts to vain gesticulations like ‘my stamp’.
K A Solaman
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