The employees who once had difficulty to manage time even for lunch now have practically nothing to do in the office. [break]
“With a heap of work, the office hours used to pass in a jiffy. But now, we find difficulty even in passing time due to the lack of work,” complains an employee, Lekhnath Poudel.
“We can´t stay at home saying there is no work. We have to come to the office and somehow pass time to complete formality of a job,” Dilliram, another employee, concurs.
“We would feel activated if only we had work. In the lack of work, we feel sleepy and have to yawn our way through the office hours,” he adds.
The post office used to be one busy place when it was the major means of communication. But now with the advent of Internet and telephone, people have forgotten to write letters, limiting the employees to blabbering at office.
The regional office once had a daily turnover of more than 10,000 letters which has now come down to almost 2,500, majority of which are government correspondences.
“Who will send a letter when everyone has a mobile phone and most have access to the Internet. The days of letters have long gone,” postal officer Krishna Prasad Aryal feels. “While a letter takes a week to get delivered, phone and internet provide immediate access. And there is always courier service to send bigger items,” Aryal explains.
The post office is flooded with newspapers nowadays. “As the newspapers are delivered free of cost, we get heaps of newspapers,” Aryal says. Similarly, postcards sent home by visiting tourists make up the majority of the volume.
The regional office used to earn hundreds of thousands daily by selling stamps alone but it earns around 70,000 now with the majority coming from dispatch of citizenship certificates, passports and postcards.
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