Snail Mail Silliness Shocker

Like many Gulf Countries, the UAE has a peculiar idea of how to run a postal service. They don't actually deliver to your door. This is a major blow to letterbox manufacturers, but also to the customers because they have to rent a PO Box for an annual fee of about Dhs 300, and they have to go to their box every now and again to pick up their mail. Needless to say, this is seriously inconvenient for customers, so what most people do is use the PO Box of their workplace.

Today's Emirates Today carries a report of Emirates Post planning to crack down on this practice. An Emirates Post spokesman said:

“The personal mail of hundreds of employees causes a lot of confusion, while sorting out the company mail takes time. Sometimes the official mail gets lost or delayed.”
The Emirates Post letter to businesses says: “We want to prevent the loss of company’s mail due to sorting confusion when personal letters are addressed to the company’s PO box.”

Well no, Emirates Post spokesman, that's disingenuous tosh. The internal sorting of company mail is none of your effing business. The blatantly obvious real reason for this ludicrous idea is that you want hundreds of thousands of residents to give you Dhs 300 every year, so you can bump up your revenues ahead of your impending privatisation.

Keefieboy for one will not be getting a private mailbox. Why on earth would he want to pay good money to receive bills, bank statements and junk mail?