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recruits, no facilities but mail in plenty
The quantity of mail for distribution has increased while the number of postmen to do the job has decreased in comparison. A postman attached to the Battaramulla post office charged that each postman was compelled to handle the workload of two people. “Number of houses and business places has increased in the last few years but no new employees have been recruited to meet the demand”, he said. The postman said this discrepancy has resulted in people not receiving letters on time and the recipients in turn complaining regularly about the delay. The postman said there were 16 postmen at the Battaramulla post office and this number has not changed since 1980 considering the number of private institutions that have come up during the last ten years. Another postman said each one of them has to visit as much as 1000 houses and business places daily and on most days they find this difficult to manage and therefore distribute part of the letters on such days and deliver the rest on the following day. The postmen also complained about the monthly bicycle allowance of Rs.100 given by the government calling it a very paltry amount. They claimed it was high time the government increased this amount or provide new bicycles as promised earlier. |
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