Dear Editor,
I had to purchase a postage stamp to post someone a Valentine card and to my chagrin and disappointment discovered that the stamp had no adhesive paste on its back. I then went back to the counter clerk and she bashfully informed me it is so with all, and that they usually provide customers with tube paste to be added to stamps, but at present there were none in her stock.
Editor, one is cognizant of the fact that the International Postal Union in Geneva and the Guyana Government provides the post office of this country with large sums of money for its daily running and maintenance, plus it also generates over 10 million dollars per month from rental of building spaces and has daily sales of stamps and postal money transfers, yet it cannot provide adhesive paste for postal stamps to customers.
On the other hand, Editor one is also aware that the Chairman of the Board of Directors and other directors get a stipend made up of travelling and meals allowance after their monthly meetings, with no shortage or ifs and buts provided.
On my way home, with the paste-less postage stamp still on my finger, I wondered, and convinced myself that this country indeed desperately needed a Cairo-like revolution, but because of my age the only thing that I can willingly offer and provide is my one red shirt for its flag. Provided it should be named the postage stamp revolution. And all the sycophants and incompetents in this current defective system should become domestic staff in the new order.
Yours faithfully,
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