Snail mail

THE EDITOR: January 25 in Tobago and I am still receiving Christmas cards. The two that arrived today were post marked December 4 and November 27, both from the US. Why is it taking so long for mail to find its way over here?

Delivery between the two islands is also poor, inexcusably so. A set of accounts mailed in Scarborough, the other day, by registered post, to an address in Port of Spain took six weeks - the originals were required and scanned copies sent electronically were not acceptable. There was much confusion trying to track the envelope until it was eventually located. Whenever I do have to send anything abroad I try to get it posted in Trinidad.

I am in possession of an envelope posted in Edinburgh, Scotland on May 16, 1881, addressed to my great grandmother who lived at High Street in San Fernando. No, I did not get the year wrong – we are looking at mail delivery to Trinidad 138 years ago. It arrived two weeks later as the Trinidad post mark of May 31, 1881, indicates.

What does this tell us? It tells us that even with the reduced amount of mail now in circulation, TT Post is sliding backwards. This is a disgrace.

JENNIFER THOMSON DE VERTEUIL, Courland

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