Bartica Post Office must upgrade facilities for customers

Jul 15, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
Bartica is one of the latest Municipalities in Guyana. The beach at the band stand and other areas, the black water that once you get in you don’t want to get out, the beautiful houses, the supermarkets, the well maintained roads and pavements and the drainage system. The entire community is so clean you can even smell the cleanness. The municipality market is also well laid out and sanitary.
You can say that the Regional Democratic Council and the Town Council is doing a reasonable good job. I am not from Bartica, just like the thousands of other persons who pass there, en route to other areas, mining, logging and the quarrying industry or spending a holiday or visiting other tourist resorts, like Tiperu Falls, White Water and Baganara among others.
The police station, the RDC building, the Guyana Revenue Office, the National Insurance Building, the Hospital, the Commercial Banks, the Guyana Gold Board Office, all are within walking distance from each other, not forgetting the many hotels. However, my main focus and concern is the Post Office. The office is housed and cramped in a building, like so many other business and offices including the Guyana Gold Board. Persons using the services of the Post Office are made to wait for hours, standing in long lines particularly at the end of the month when public servants are being paid. This is at a time when our senior citizens would present themselves to receive their Old Age and National Insurance Pensions also Public Assistance, that many of them heavily depend on.
I see no reason why the Guyana Post Office Corporation and the Ministry of Social Services collectively cannot provide seating accommodation for not only our pensioners but for all other persons that use the very, very important services that the Bartica Post Office provides. There was a time when Barticans and all other persons used to utilize the services of other money transfer agencies, namely Western Union and MoneyGram, unfortunately these services are no longer available, as a result, the services of the Post Office have become more relevant and demanding.
Yes, it is time for a new building to be constructed to house the Post Office, so it can be adequately staffed and persons can be seated while waiting. It will be unfair of me not to say that the staff at the Post Office are courteous and capable and very efficient, the problem is space and clerks to deal with the large number of persons using the service.
Archie W. Cordis
Region 2

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