AHMEDABAD: Welcome back to the age of the snail mail. Rajesh Patel, a resident of Satellite, had sent a speed post to Chennai on October 9, but the mail has not yet reached the recipient. Officials say that the renovation work at the Rail Mail Service is delaying mails being dispatched from the city.
In fact, even normal mails sent during the festival are lying on platform number 12 of the Ahmedabad railway station.
The railway platform, which is a metre gauge platform, is overflowing with bags containing mails, including speed posts.
An official of the Ahmedabad Post says, "The entry to Rail Mail Service near platform 1 is closed for renovation, and hence for the past 20 days, mails are being sent to platform 12." This platform does not have a lift nor access to mail platforms of broad gauge, he said. "As a result, mails are not being loaded on to the trains."
Akshay Pandey, another postal-service user affected by the delay, said that he had sent a mail on October 9 and when he inquired last, it was lying at the Ahmedabad station. The mail was meant to reach Jamnagar. Queries to the speed post helpline will reveal that mails sent on October 24 are also lying at the station.
J K Bhavsar, the manager of Speed Posts at Shahibaugh, says: "We have requested the railway authorities to complete the renovation work as soon as possible so that the mails can be sent."
Source : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/
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