| KANDAHAR CITY: The postal service was revived on Thursday in this southern city after a quarter century, enabling residents to correspond with relatives and friends in the country and abroad. Abdul Qader Sufi, in charge of the postal service at the communication department in Kandahar, said they had reopened post offices in different parts of the city after 25 years. Leaflets explaining how to post letters and parcels have been displayed near letter boxes. Parcel costs and postage stamp prices had not been fixed as yet, Sufi said, claiming revival of the service would benefit Kandahar residents, who wanted to exchange letters with near and dear ones. Gul Wali, from Maiwand district of Kandahar, said he would earlier travel to Kabul or Pakistan’s Quetta city to dispatch letters and parcels to his brother in Saudi Arabia. The resumption of the postal service represents good news to him and many others. |