Chitthi Aayi Hai.......

Today after so many days i got a chance to visit the post office. My roomie was supposed to pick up some kinda parcel from the post office. So we reached there at 10. It was in a kind of broken down building. I went there with a preconceived notion that it would be "sunsaan" as it was saturday morning. But what met my eyes upon reaching there was a pleasant suprise to the eyes. It was buzzing with activity. There were post-mans,sorters(if thats wat you call them),clerks. The whole atmosphere in the office brought a retro look to it. I felt i was back in the malgudi days where children would run after postman, when postmen were welcomed with open arms, when the song "chitthi aayi hai aayi hai" was a super-hit. There was the sound of a dot-matrix printer, sorters sorting all teh letters with a half a blink on it, the manager of that office meticuously noting down all the things and post-men taking their load for the day. It literally felt for some time that i had done a time travel and noone was able to see me. Their management i guess is still unmatched. There is never a delay nor any kind of address mismatch.   

As i stood ther witnessing all this i realized how things have changed nowadays. Our new post-men is the e-mail. There is noo excitement surrounding the postman. We only see them as time waste. We dont even say thank you let alone giving that guy something to eat or at the least water to drink. I do agree that e-mails are much more convenient but with the post office there is a human touch which cant be matched. And the feelings that can be felt or expresed in a handwritten letter can be never felt in an email. It just doesnt come out the same way. Lastly I do feel that with a decline in the use of post office somewhere down the line we have lost a bit of humanity and innocence tooo......