One for the album:B. Arumugam, Senior Superintendent of Post Offices,
Salem East Postal Division, handing over the album to T. Mariyappan on
Saturday.— Photo: Special Arrangement
The Postal Department is flooded with congratulatory
messages received through e-post (electronic post) from all sections of
society to Paralympics high jump gold medalist T. Mariyappan.
On
receiving the news of Mariyappan winning the coveted gold medal at Rio
on September 10, the Postal Department announced creation of new e-post
address to enable the public to send congratulatory messages.
Sports
lovers took full advantage of the opportunity and started sending the
congratulatory messages from the first day. The Department received
20,182 congratulatory messages from different parts of the country till
Saturday, when he arrived at his hometown — Periavadagampatti village. A
majority of the messages hailing his achievement were from Maharashtra,
West Bengal, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and New Delhi. The officials
of the Suramangalam head post office took printouts of all the messages
and a team from the department visited Periavadagampatti village and
handed them over to Mariyappan.
The department will continue to receive the e-post messages for a few more days, Postal Department sources told
The Hindu
.
The Department also honoured the Rio Paralympics
hero by bringing out stamps prominently displaying his portrait under
the “My stamp’ scheme.
Source : http://www.thehindu.com
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