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No mail delivery for flooded areas — GPO

Dec 20, 2008 News

The Guyana Post Office Corporation says it is not delivering mail to residents of flood-hit areas of East Coast Demerara, further compounding the woes of those who have had to deal with the flood waters for over a week now.
Post office workers are refusing to go into the flood waters to deliver mail, and that includes light and phone bills.
It means that if the residents don’t get those bills in time before the respective due dates, they might very well get their telephones and lights disconnected, according to an official.
According to Postmaster General Mayglen Adams, the post office workers have been complaining that in some areas the flood waters are higher than their long boots, and so, unless the water goes down, they wouldn’t be delivering the mail for those areas.
The specific communities affected by this action are Bare Root, Bachelor’s Adventure, Enterprise Squatting Area, Dazzell Housing Scheme, Foulis, Paradise, and Section ‘B’ Non Pareil.
The Guyana Post Office Corporation wants residents in these communities to check with the post offices that service their areas if they are expecting any mail or utility bills, according to a notice it published. Normal delivery of mail will resume when the flood waters recede, the notice added.
The Postmaster General said the decision not to deliver mail in the flooded communities was taken by the management, but the Board of the Post Office Corporation seemed unaware of this decision.
Chairman of the Board, Bishop Juan Edghill, when contacted, said he did not know of the notice published in the press.

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