The Cabinet has decided that all utility bills now be received by all post offices throughout the country. Really a good step. So it also means the government has after all accepted the naked fact that as much it directs commercial banks to expand and facilitate utility bills payment the more are commercial banks showing their lethargy.
An Islamabad citizen Basheer Ali has very timely suggested that Cabinet should also direct Post Offices to accept traffic violation fines. It is really a good suggestion.
Apart from General Post Offices (GPOs) and Delivery Zone Post Office which are in big cities and towns only, 80% post offices officially designated as Sub Post Offices comprise two man staff namely senior clerk called Asstt. Sub Post Office and a junior clerk. At some post office there is also a lower grade staff called packer. These two or three man staff house in one single rent room, with one dingy bulb, two old age chairs, one table. This staff do sale of stamps, envelopes, booking of money orders, VPs, parcels, registered letters, parcels, driving licences, arms licences, zakat coupons distributions, sale of national identity cards. At their dark room office they are also to keep safe for continuous three years used match boxes for audit purpose. In foreign country in air conditioned post offices one man do only one job namely one who sells postage stamps would never do booking of registered letters.
Our governments are always ready to more burden those sections of the nation which can effectively raise no voice by imposing and increasing taxes.
May I also propose that Pakistan Post Office should also accept payments of school fees, university examinations fees, passport fees, court fees, booking of railway tickets, payment of newspapers monthly subscriptions, issuance of court/affidavit papers, etc. These sub post offices still have much elacity to bear this new burden silently.