LEGISLATORS may now have to ask Congressional amendment to the law governing the Philippine Posts Corporation (Philpost) following the public knowledge of its becoming irrelevant and inefficient.
After a Sangguniang Panlalawigan joint committee hearing on complaints of postal users, investigators learned the sad truth: the Philpost is undermanned and has to sacrifice some of its courier service operations resulting in delayed mail deliveries.
Admitting the corporation has significantly been paralyzed after only 9 men are left of its 22 men manning the mails, Philpost head Felix Gablines reported too that the government agency is losing in terms of revenues in its past operations.
Republic Act 7354 governs the operations of the Philpost, and SP legislators may have to lobby for an amendment of the law, which may allow the government to subsidize its postal services operations. (PIA)
