The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

I am driven to write to you in light of the utter chaos and madness that affects the post office box-renting public at the Cable Beach Post Office.

That post office has had a a history of the parking lot being overrun by cars belonging to staff at the Sandals resort directly across the street. Sandals seems unwilling or incapable of providing parking for its car-driving employees.

Consequently, for many years customers of the Cable Beach Post Office have had little to no parking available to them and have been badly inconvenienced by the abundance of non-customer cars in the parking lot whenever they come to the post office to collect mail, purchase stamps, register mail or any of the other things that one does at a post office.

From March 2019 until recently, we had a reprieve thanks to COVID from this nonsense. The exception was during the run-up to the recent general election when the Cable Beach Post Office became a voter registration centre. The building is not made for that purpose and does not have the room or public facilities to accommodate such crowds.

During the voter registration period, persons like me who rent a post office box at this location were inconvenienced as all the parking spaces for post office patrons were taken over by parliamentary registration personnel and potential voters looking to register.

Now that Sandals has reopened, the post office has reverted to the pre-COVID situation where Sandals employees have once again taken over the post office parking lot, virtually to the exclusion of post office customers.

Things are so bad that Sandals even has a security guard on duty in the parking lot directing Sandals employees and post office customers alike on where to park, assuming there is a space available.

My question is: why is the Post Office and/or the Government allowing this to occur?

Who is looking out for the box-renting customers who pay to collect their mail at that post office but are highly inconvenienced whenever they go there in order to do so?

The post office has a sign in the yard saying half-hour parking, but clearly that does not apply to Sandals employees.

VINCENT WALLACE WHITFIELD

Nassau,

February 21 2022.