(October 25, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Postal staff in certain parts of Colombo is stealing the inbound letters from overseas. The theft is alarmingly in the increase and some overseas senders and the local recipients have become victims for a very long period of this scandal. The victims are said to be mainly persons from the minority communities.
The areas affected by this scandal are Kotahena, Wattale, Ja-ela and Slave Island and the situation in Kotahena is said to be very worrying.
A victim in Kotahena said: ‘letters sent by my brother for the past one and a half years did not reach us’. ‘When my brother posted a birthday card to our elderly mother, he had stated ‘birth day card only’ in the envelope, but even that did reach us’ she said. According to her many known residents in Kotahena have fallen victims to this systematic scandal.
A Tamil resident in Wattala said ‘I did not receive two letters consecutively from my sister in Canada recently. I don’t know what happened’.
The postal staff are said to be stealing the letters to siphon off the foreign remittances sent by the expatriates.
This scandal is said to limited to the said areas only and Tamils living in other areas are largely not affected by this scandal. -Sri Lanka Guardian
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I'm an Electrical Engineer from Anuradhapura,Presently working in Doha, Qatar. Few Months back I sent a Birthday Card to my Daughter on her Birthday with some encouraging words for her GCE (O/L) exam which she faces this December. She never recieved that, I felt very sad and bad about Sri Lanka, The card being a little bigger one the same fate would have fallen on that also. I never send any money through post, and I would sugest to all expatriates never to send money thorugh post.
So it is affecting not only certain part of Sri Lanka or certain community. I think the GOSL and the Post Master General can apprehend the culprits if they are interested. I curse the mail thives.
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