By Tania Khadder
PEYIA residents still aren’t getting their mail, despite insistence from the Paphos post office and the central post office that the situation there has been sorted out.
One British resident living in the Paphos village called the Cyprus Mail yesterday morning and said it had been six weeks since she last got her mail.
“Some people are getting it but we haven’t received anything,” the 50-year-old woman said. “I’m waiting for my phone and electricity bills, an income tax rebate, and even some things my mother sent me.”
But both the Paphos district officer, Andreas Philippou, and the central post office manager, Soteris Avgustos, insisted yesterday afternoon that residents were receiving all of their mail, including delayed mail. When asked specifically about the resident who had complained, he suggested that perhaps the woman hadn’t been sent any mail in the past six weeks.
When the Peyia postman quit in April, the postal service was left in shambles and people were forced to search through piles of mail left at the old Co-op Bank building without any organisation or security. After one month without mail, two new postmen were hired and things were said to be back on track.
But the British woman said yesterday the Paphos post office had told her the new postmen could not read addresses written in English.
She called back later in the afternoon to say that her husband, who had gone to the Paphos Municipality searching for answers in the morning, had been told to go to an unnamed coffee shop and talk to “the man in the corner” to find his mail. He went and was reunited with at least some of his mail.
The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.
