By Alex Mita
RESIDENTS OF Peyia in Paphos have been without mail delivery since the beginning of April after the resignation of the only postman in the area.
Local residents told the Cyprus Mail yesterday letters have been mounting at the old Co-op bank because there no postman is available to deliver them.
“In order to get our mail, we have to go down to the old Co-op and rummage through huge stacks of letters just to see if we have anything or to find something that was sent to us,” one resident said.
In the last ten years the delivery of the mail has gradually decreased from daily to twice a week and when residents complained that they weren’t getting their mail on time, the local postman resigned leaving Peyia without mail delivery since the beginning of April.
“The population of Peyia has doubled in size and in order to deliver mail to all parts of the municipality on a daily basis, as required by the regulations of postal service, two or more postmen need to be recruited,” another resident said.
But Paphos Post Office deputy chief Themistocles Gregoriou yesterday assured that steps had been taken to ensure that the delivery service resumes as soon as possible.
“We have now assigned two postmen to the area, but the reason we’ve had a delay in resuming the service was due to the large amounts of letters that have piled up at the old Co-op due to the resignation of the old postman,” Gregoriou said.
“But we have now divided Peyia into two regions and each postman will be responsible for delivering the mail in his region. I would like to assure Peyia residents that the problem will be solved within five to six days and that service will resume without any further delay.”
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