Day 21 March SOLSC! #SOL23

On the 14^th we posted a parcel from our post office to our daughter, Gayatri. She and family live in Germany.  They went there in 2015. Some years ago, we were wondering how to send parcels to them. My cousin told me she sends chutney powders and other masala powders to daughters living abroad by India Post. We followed her advice.

I remember those long-ago days when we wrote letters regularly to our relatives. My paternal grandfather was a regular letter writer. He wrote on post cards to all his grandchildren and other relatives regularly. I used to write to him when he was staying with my father’s elder brother in Mumbai. My grandfather was a teacher. He taught Mathematics and English. I remember when we made mistakes in our writing, he would tell us about it in his next letter. This helped us to improve our writing.

I don’t think anyone writes letters now, but our postal department is still busy. They transfer parcels to different parts of our country and to rest of the world too. People invest their savings in different post office schemes. They are considered very safe. We have been saving not only for ourselves but for our children too since the eighties. Last year I opened a senior citizen fixed deposit 😊.

Through the India Post tracking system, we tracked our parcel. We were surprised that it had reached Frankfurt yesterday. We booked it in Manipal on 14^th   noon. It reached Mangalore that night. At 9.30 the same night it was sent to Bangalore. It reached there on the 15^th afternoon. After customs clearance it reached Delhi early 16^th morning at 5.17. The same morning it was sent to Frankfurt. It was received in Frankfurt on the 20^th at 11.51 in the morning. We will get a message when it is delivered to Gayatri.

Quite a journey 😊.