Post It, Your Way

The most surprising thing in Dubai is that they are no Postal Addresses. There are no building numbers – only names. The major streets have name but as for the remaining you can call it by any name you like. It has got some similarity to Mumbai, in terms of buildings having proper address.
When you need to visit any establishment here you have to ask for the “Location Map”. It comes by fax and then you have to follow the map and reach the location – nice way.

There are Post Offices in UAE and then you can register to Post Office Boxes. All your letters should carry your P.O Box number and it will accumulate in your box. There is no mailman running around delivering your post – strange, isn’t it?

Now our countrymen are always ingenious in doing something different and making us “Proud”. But they do not realize that it vitiates the entire country’s image when they write, talk or publish about their resourceful practices.
Mails if they come from India are mostly from Kerala. Mostly it’s the family of the labourers who still believe in snail mail – for others telephone or Email has taken precedence.
Recently the local newspaper published a report on the “Stamp Scam”. They have just learnt the word “Scam” here – another import from our beloved country.

A person buys a postal stamp in India and daubs the face of the stamp with a thin film of transparent glue. Then he pastes the stamp in the envelope and sends it to UAE by post. The receiver cuts out the stamp, puts the same in water. The effect is that the stamp not only comes out of the envelope but since the front side was glued, the official marking (the stamp) comes out along with the glue. So the stamp is ready for use the next time.
After being caught the response of the wrongdoer was simple,” His family is too poor to buy postal stamps”. I can sympathize with the idea that they are poor but that does not give them the license to felony.
But in the same breath I cannot crucify them also.