Some years ago my letterbox was broken into. Eventually arrangements were made with the postmaster at Paola, later at Zejtun, so that my house louvers would serve as a letterbox.
This worked until an ex-colleague started hassling me about not having a letterbox, finally arriving to the point where my ex-colleague would take my post from the postman.
I had to complain to the postmaster not to hand my letters to anyone. In case of difficulty the postman always has at his disposal notification forms which he can leave for me to collect my post, never to leave it on the gate or thrown into the front garden accessible from outside, especially in my case.
Recently my post was left literally on the outside gate of my residence. Thinking it was a change of postman I phoned for clarification. As I could not talk to the postman concerned, the phone was not passed to him, I had to lodge a complaint with the Central Office acknowledged in writing.
Curiously enough, the written acknowledgement was posted well but after that my post started again to be left practically outside. This has resulted in missing some post not knowing what happened to others if there were any.
The insistence of not being allowed to talk to the postman alerted me to report to the police as I am not sure what is happening to my post, what it contained or for what purpose was my post being withheld in this way.
In this case reports to the police are not enough, and investigations should be carried out because of the irregularity of these events. Who is to blame for this strange behaviour? The government, the minister or anonymous individuals on the place of work for some business of their own?
Surely this will continue to go on until investigations become the normality in similar cases, instead of the feeling that one is talking to the wind while the right of an individual to receive his post is being abused in such an arrogant and anonymous way.
The public should also do better to alert authorities and demand their rights instead of taking the easy way out and scapegoating the government because elections are near. The issue is not who is to govern but the more important one of who are the wrongdoers who think they can overrule any government by playing games of hide and seek.
Sovereignty in the Constitution also means an individual’s fundamental human rights are safeguarded by the relevant operations within the State institutions.