Don't put cash in your mail — PHILPOST

The Philippine Postal Corporation has reminded again the mailing public never to insert valuable items in their mails, this after reports came out that some cash inserted in mails were lost.

Philpost information officer Josephine Layco said that incidents like these cannot be prevented because mails pass through a lot of hands before these reach the recipients.

Layco said that Philpost has been doing an investigation on the partly torn and opened mails that have reached their office.

Philpost Cebu City central postmaster Walter Mayola said that the letters that were reported to be partly torn and opened have reached their office in such condition and that they have been investigating as to who the real culprits are of this massive pilferage operation involving snail mails.

"Ang suwat before it would reach the addressee moagi gyud og daghang mga kamot so dili gyud ta kasulti kung kinsa gyud ang manghilabot, but we are trying our best to catch the real culprits," he said.

He added that they have been prohibiting the mailing public from inserting money in mails as it is against Philpost rules and that their personnel are not allowed to scrutinize what is inside the envelopes.

"The problem with some of us is that we are trying to evade taxes that is why we have incidents like these, insertion of money in mails is prohibited. And the bigger problem there is that Philpost is the one often blamed. We don't allow postal thieves in our office that is why we are investigating on that," he said.

Mayola also urged the mailing public to report any incident such as these to the police or to their office immediately so that they could make immediate action on the matter.

At present, Philpost has been very strict in handling mails and would not allow cash attached on letters to avoid any incident. For the mailing public to avail of money delivering services, they could mail it through Peragram or the international money order service of the Philpost. "These cost much cheaper compared to other private mail carriers," Mayola stressed. - Jasmin R. Uy