Even as workers of NIPOST in Enugu have continued to work very hard to re-awaken the interest of customers in their services, poor patronage appears to have rendered most of the workers redundant.
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One of the major post offices in Enugu metropolis located at Ogui Road near the non-functional Nigerian Railway station, looks deserted but when Saturday Vanguard visited the counter, it was observed that some postal staff were present but they were idling away as there was no customer to attend to.
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There were some mails and cargos behind the counter indicating that work was in progress but the workers had little or nothing doing as no customer walked in to access the postal services at the time.
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A staff on the counter who would not disclose her identity told Saturday Vanguard in a brief chat that "we still get customers especially the companies who come here to post their mails to different places but there is no longer rush as it used to be many years ago."
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She said that there were different postage stamps on sale while those who had bulk mails to send come around to patronize them but, according to her, the private courier companies had seriously posed a threat to their operations as they are regarded as the "first choice".