– to randomly selected citizens

THREE lucky citizens of Georgetown will receive the first of 100 free mailboxes to be mounted on their premises as the Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC)’s mailbox sensitisation campaign moves into high gear.
The three citizens reside in District ‘A’, which includes the city, and they were randomly selected.

The corporation’s country operations are divided into six districts, namely Areas ‘A’ to ‘F’, and the managers in all districts will randomly select recipients in the coming weeks to receive free mailboxes.

The objective is to encourage every resident to install a mailbox on his/her premises, so that their mails cand be delivered safely.

The GPOC’s mailbox initiative was launched last February in response to the increasing number of returned mail to post offices all over the country.

The main reason is the absence of mailboxes and sometimes the residents themselves whenever the postal workers visit to deliver registered and regular mail.

According to Postmaster General, Karen Brown, very often, even after five or six passes, the postal staff are still unable to deliver. This inability to deliver, she said, creates a financial burden on the postal service, since the mail must be put back into the system, re-sorted and/or stored, and the addressees notified.

In order to ensure that citizens receive their letters, cheques, notices and bills from the NIS and other public sector agencies, the GPOC embarked on a countrywide mailbox campaign. It involves some collaboration with our technical/vocational institutes in East and West Demerara, East and West Berbice and the Essequibo Coast; and it is still expected to encourage our youths and artisans to construct low-cost but functional mailboxes with any durable material such as PVC and metal sheeting.

The presentation of the first three free mailboxes will take place at the Kitty Post Office on Alexander Street, Kitty, at 10:00hrs next Wednesday.