PUDUKKOTTAI: If you are living in a village and relying only on the Indian Postal Department for receiving passports and ATM cards, have a careful look at the garbage in your village, since your valuable correspondence may be found there.This is what happended to the villagers at Kothamangalam in Alangudi in Pudukkottai.Villagers were shocked to see several passports and ATM cards strewn in the garbage on Thursday.The garbage was found near the house of Selvam, a friend of C Bhavanandam, who is the postman. The post office is being manned by postmaster Manickam.For a long time, people in the area were complaining that no letter or any other correspondence was reaching them.However, they didn’t imagine that they were being delivered to garbage.Enraged villagers resorted to a road blockade, demanding action against the postal department staff, responsible for the act.When the villagers led by former panchayat president Senkodan and union councillors Selvam and Sivasamy collected them in sacks and sorted them, they found that it contained passports, bank intimations, insurance policies, letters addressed to students, medical parcels, books, government and court communications, numbering nearly 10,000.Superintendent of Post Offices Selvarani, postal complaints Inspector Anuradha and others visited the spot and examined the discarded postal articles. They also held inquiries with the postal staff. On being assured of quick distribution of the discarded postal items, the agitation was withdrawn.
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