During the pandemic, the postal service was shut down
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskEcuadorians used to get post, and a fair bit of it. A whiskey-barrel-turned-postbox on the Galapagos islands dates to the 1700s, as a way for sailors to exchange post . What is now the office of the Ecuadorian vice-president was once the post office’s headquarters. Ms Meneses recalls the joys of receiving a letter.
A service still exists on paper. Mr Moreno forgot that Ecuador is a member of the Universal Postal Union, abody, and is bound by its convention to facilitate the sending of international post. So in February 2021, just before leaving office, he signed a decree creating a new company. It currently has 84 employees and 24 vehicles, says its manager, Verónica Alcívar . It could be expanded to 250 workers, but that seems unlikely.
Documents are trickier. Students wishing to enroll at foreign universities must spend a fortune sending their registration papers abroad. And there can be consequences to not having a postal service. It acts as a “backstop if other systems fail”, delivering medicines, welfare benefits or ballot papers, says Richard John, a historian.
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