- How a postman’s habit of not delivering letters threw life haywire across six hamlets
Salem (Tamil Nadu), Jan. 6: Scores of people in six villages have missed out on jobs, interviews, pension and college admissions for at least two years because their lone postman junked their mail.
The tragedy of Koneripatti and neighbouring hamlets has underlined how crucial a role the post office still plays in the lives of Indians in an age of email and cellphones.
Postal authorities have delivered 19 registered letters and 1,284 ordinary letters since the scandal broke last month at Koneripatti sub-post office, a bumpy 52km ride from this steel town.
Postman Paramasivam, while renovating his home in Ponnampalayam village, had carelessly thrown out one of the sacks in which he hid the mail.
A painfully thin boy in shorts was weeping inconsolably at a thatched shed at Ponnampalayam on December 24. “My mother has lost a precious job,â€
