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The Dutchman stepped back from the radical line taken in an earlier draft directive, written by his predecessor Martin Bangemann. The same arguments came into play when Internal Market Commissioner Frits Bolkestein launched his own proposals shortly after entering office. Critics, such as French giant La Poste, claimed further liberalisation will cost thousands of jobs and imperil a universal service because post offices would not earn enough to pay for loss-making deliveries to rural areas.

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Competition would also allow the biggest firms to find new markets overseas, while ensuring they face competition on their own patch without being able to finance acquisitions out of profits from letter market monopolies.īut the sticking point has always been how far to go. If a company can choose which telecom operator carries its voice and data, then surely it can have a say over who delivers its letters, say the disciples of liberalisation. We’re still waiting.Įven the most dyed-in-the-wool socialist MEPs agree that more competition in the sector has the potential to drive growth by stimulating new services and giving customers more choice of provider.

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By 1997 the EU could only agree to open up some of the sector – for letters weighing more than 350 grams – and promised to take another step on the road to full liberalisation at a later date. While telecom markets were fully liberalised in 1998, it has been a different story with post. Else, we may intensify our agitation,' said Pradipta Jena, another resident of Mancheswar area.For over a decade, member states in the European Commission and MEPs have struggled to take a decisive step to open the postal markets. 'We have given them an ultimatum of 15 days to resume delivery of letters in Ghadakan post office and also to discipline themselves. I have informed higher authorities about the matter and I have no option but to wait for further orders.' People seemed to have run out of patience though. Every day we receive about 2,500 to 3,000 mails, which are distributed by four postmen.

Expressing his helplessness in this matter too, the postmaster said, 'The area covered by our post office is huge and developing fast with a large number of private and government offices, staff quarters and residential colonies coming up in the area under our jurisdiction. Many people have lost important documents due to the negligence of the postal staff, they said. People have to go to the post office personally to collect their letters. I cannot follow them.' Residents also alleged Ghadakan sub-post office in the locality, which is under the Mancheswar Railway Colony Post Office, has stopped delivering letters for years together. How can I know if they have delivered the letters or not. Every day postmen leave office to deliver letters and return empty handed. Postmaster Santosh Kumar Nandi, however, said, 'I have no idea that letters are not delivered on time. They (post office officials) have been playing with the career of hundreds of youth, who apply for jobs in the Railway Recruitment Board (RRB), as a huge number of applications have been piled up in the post office for months together,' said Krushna Chandra Pati, a resident of Gadhakan area. We have been getting letters after weeks and months of its arrival and sometimes we do not get them at all. 'Even after the problem was highlighted by the media, there was no change in the attitude of the postal staff. They also locked up the post office for nearly an hour. About 60-70 residents of the locality gheraoed the post office at 11 am and demanded an explanation from the post master about not getting letters on time. The article, titled 'Letters cow feed at Mancheswar post office', had highlighted how hundreds of letters were lying soaked in the rain and some being eaten by cows moving about freely on the post office premises. TOI had published a report on November 5 about undelivered letters dumped unattended in a verandah of the post office.

They also alleged postal officials are not delivering Adhaar cards properly. BHUBANESWAR: Mancheswar and Ghadakan residents in the city staged a demonstration in front of Mancheswar Railway Post Office on Friday, demanding timely delivery of letters.