Post office
It’s a granary... it’s a hut... no it’s a post office!
Looks are more than often deceiving, and this post office in Chattogram is proof of that.
Down but not out
This song might give many from our older generation a sense of nostalgia for the days when we used to wait for the postman to know if there was “some word” from our loved ones.
Barely surviving, yet serving
The post office is in a two-storey building on a busy street in the city's Mohammadpur area. Three post boxes of three colours are on its yard. If it were not for those, people probably would not realise that it was a post office. Over the years the buildings surrounding it have changed but the post office stayed almost the same.
Road to transformation
Shahin Islam, a flood victim in Bogra's Kuripara village, never thought it would be so easy to withdraw money using Bangladesh Post Office's Electronic Money Transfer Service. All he had to do was go to Sariakandi post office, show the official concerned the pin code he received on his mobile phone and collect Tk 5,000 sent by Bangladesh Red Crescent Society as financial aid.
Spotlight / YOU'VE GOT SNAIL MAIL
An average day at the General Post Office (GPO) in Gulistan starts as early as 7:30 in the morning.
THE DAAK GHOR TODAY
Over what seems like a short period of time, technology has suddenly become the primary tool that aids our social interaction.
It’s a granary... it’s a hut... no it’s a post office!
Looks are more than often deceiving, and this post office in Chattogram is proof of that.
Road to transformation
Shahin Islam, a flood victim in Bogra's Kuripara village, never thought it would be so easy to withdraw money using Bangladesh Post Office's Electronic Money Transfer Service. All he had to do was go to Sariakandi post office, show the official concerned the pin code he received on his mobile phone and collect Tk 5,000 sent by Bangladesh Red Crescent Society as financial aid.
Barely surviving, yet serving
The post office is in a two-storey building on a busy street in the city's Mohammadpur area. Three post boxes of three colours are on its yard. If it were not for those, people probably would not realise that it was a post office. Over the years the buildings surrounding it have changed but the post office stayed almost the same.
Down but not out
This song might give many from our older generation a sense of nostalgia for the days when we used to wait for the postman to know if there was “some word” from our loved ones.
THE DAAK GHOR TODAY
Over what seems like a short period of time, technology has suddenly become the primary tool that aids our social interaction.
YOU'VE GOT SNAIL MAIL
An average day at the General Post Office (GPO) in Gulistan starts as early as 7:30 in the morning.
