Advocate J.A. Mascarenhas, a Kandivali resident has filed a complaint with Samta Nagar Police Station pertaining to the Samta Nagar Post Office’s selling undelivered mails to scrap dealer. The scrap merchant runs his business outside Samta Nagar BEST bus station, compound wall. Kandivali residents have been complaining of non-receipt of post office mails as those are being sold to scrap dealers who then make money by selling them. Despite filing complaint with Samta Nagar Police Station they have turned a blind eye towards this issue. Many important documents like electricity bills, telephone bills, bank statements and mutual fund statements are sent to customers through mails by companies. However, these documents often find their way to the scrap dealer’s shop instead of being delivered to the customer’s residence. As a result of this, often customers miss the deadline to make payment to utility service providers and have to pay additional amount as penalty.
Dr. Leo Rebello, an alternative medicine practitioner said, “My friend had forwarded the SMS pertaining to Post office selling mails to scrap dealer. I had sent a mail in this regard to Samta Nagar Police station but they failed to take any action. A postman had informed me that post office often sell scrap to scrap dealers. Nowadays, postmen are offered cycles to deliver mails to customers. It is the responsibility of the post office that the mails should reach people on time.”
When AV spoke to Anil Mane, Senior Police Inspector, Samta Nagar Police Station, he tried to shun his responsibilities and responded, “We can’t do anything in this matter. You should approach the Samta Nagar Post Office and file a complaint with the Post Master. Police can’t waste their time in such trivial matters.”
Poorya Pednekar, Post Officer, Samta Nagar Post Office said, “First of all such incidents never occur. However, we will form a committee to probe this matter and after the conclusion of investigation we will take action against the accused. Whenever, we dispose any scrap we maintain proper records of it. We also have a designated scrap dealer to whom we sell those waste materials.”
When we tried to contact Advocate J.A. Mascarenhas he remained unavailable for comment.
