DHNS 

Mangalore, Jun 30:The quarterly Dak Adalat held at the office of the Senior superintendent of Post Offices in Balmatta here on Friday June 29, went uneventful as the two complainants of the day failed to make their appearance.

One of them was a suggestion that the withdrawal of money using postal cheques from the National Savings Scheme accounts should be facilitated on the same day on which the cheques are issued. Another complaint was from a person who felt some foul play with regard to his account in the post office.

Speaking on the occasion, senior superintendent M Jagadish Pai said that the Air Deccan tickets can be booked in post offices from July 2 onwards. This facility is available in all the 21 computerised post offices in the district.
 
Also there are plans to accept electricity bills in post offices. the scheme will be implemented shortly, Pai informed.

Speaking on the department’s plans to merge certain post offices in Southern Mangalore, he said that these post offices are situated in half a kilometre distance, which is actually unnecessary. That is why they are being merged.

Regarding complaints that certain post offices are in the first floor of the buildings and hence inaccessible to elderly people, the authorites didn’t have a proper answer, but said that even the Jeppu post office is in the first floor of an old building and nobody has complained.