I had a smile to myself the other week when I saw some complaints posted somewhere on the Internet about the potential removal of the “door-to-door” postal service. To say I didn’t know that there was one would be an exaggeration, but really to imagine that people depend on a door-to-door postal service is ridiculous.

A postal service is an important infrastructural item, in Europe and America simple proof of posting is enough to confirm delivery due to the inherent reliability of the postal service. Legal papers are served by post and there is an accepted assumption that if something has been consigned to the post, then it will arrive. Not so here, the Philippine Postal Corp. (Philpost) just doesn’t work properly albeit I expect that their methods, for sorting letters, etc., are similar to those used in other countries but understandably without too much high-tech support.

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