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Very nice, I liked the information on how post is sorted. I also feel a little sad for the postal workers who are about to lose their jobs. As an aside -- Not
by ultimoo 13y ago
Very nice, I liked the information on how post is sorted. I also feel a little sad for the postal workers who are about to lose their jobs.
As an aside -- Not too far from where I hail from, in rural India, the postman not only delivers the letter to the recipient but also opens it and reads it out to them incase they're illiterate and cannot read.
- ericd 13y agoHa! Very cool, I guess I never considered how mail would be handled in a country with low literacy rates. I guess I figured you would just find your literate relative :-)
- gngeal 13y agoI wonder if they sing it for a fee, too...
- SilasX 13y agoWouldn't it be a LOT cheaper in the long run just to teach them to read?
- Kluny 13y agoYou can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them think.
- sliverstorm 13y agoWho says they aren't offering programs to learn to read? Even if you went on a literacy campaign and made it a crime to be unable to read & write, you'd still have a transitional period, in which case services exactly like this one would be valuable.
- SilasX 13y agoYes, but that transitional period would be short enough that people wouldn't report (as the OP did) there being a persistent, indefinitely continuing practice of mailmen reading out mail to rural villagers.
- fyi80 13y agoOnly if they get a LOT of mail.
- keithpeter 13y agoDo they still have the typewriter booths in local markets to write letters for people? Has that gone digital now with laptops/printers? Or have literacy rates got to where most people can find a relative to write a letter? Just wondering.