Writing letters or receiving them at the Post Office are things that people here have totally forgotten. With mobile phones readily available, we now have the entire world on our palms and it is not just the cellular phones, the internet’s website and email services have made communications faster, cheaper and more reliable.

Mike Ole Maravash 
Sinon (Daraja II)

 

First you labor out writing a letter and then go hunting for stamps only sold at Post Offices far away; there are times when people had to queue for services there. Then you  have to take the letter to the mail slots and then go back home, sit back and wait with your fingers crossed for it to get there. This  may take weeks, sometimes the letters will never be delivered.

That used to be the pain of communicating via mail boxes those bygone days should, with all due respect, remain forgotten for good. With email one can nowadays send anything, letters, picture and video attachments and these are delivered in less-than-a-second to whichever destination worldwide.

Ruth R. Mtui
Kwa-Ngulelo

I don’t remember when exactly was the last time I wrote, sent or received a letter through the post office. I doubt if there are people who still use this mode of communication. Nowadays we have mobile phones which allow us to communicate faster, cheaper and more conveniently even when the credit is low you can ask the other party to call you or simply send a text message (sms).

New technology is enabling us to save time and money as opposed to the snail mail that was the Post Office based communication.

Stellah S. Mrema
Sombetini

It is impossible to go back to the old communication system of sending letters that used to take ages before being delivered. Today you can communicate with anybody, anywhere and at anytime of the day at most effective and much cheaper ways.

Using mobile phones, you can get reports of children at school, relatives who are sick back home, get directions and through internet you get a minute-by-minute update of global events. Going back to the post office mail? No way.

Vedasto Rugemalila
Arusha