And the Govt. gets it all wrong again!

The Govt. has suddenly woken up to the fact that the Postal Dept is not doing too well.
Or simply put, the people of this country got sick of recieving letters months after they were posted, not recieving them coz the did not give "diwali bonus" (read bribe) to the "friendly neibourhood postman" or finding mail dumped in sewers. They also got fed up with the extremely impolite and unprofessional attitude of these Govt. servants, and decided to give the growing Courier Industry in India a big boost.

So after killing off the sugar industry, and almost signing off the death warrant for the cement industry, the Govt. has trained its guns on the courier industry. They plan to make it mandatory for you, me and everybody else to send all packages under 150gms (which is like most of the packages you send) using the Postal Department. So you gotta leave work, run from counter to counter, go stand in a queue, and finally beg some idiot who got the job on some minister's recommendation to "Please send my package and ensure it reaches on time". After that all you can do is pray. It might be some very important documents, but they will still go into some Govt. warehouse infested with rats, before the postal dept decides to ship them. Also tracking will be a major pain, and will involve a fresh round of running around.
Either that, or you send your packages at 5 times the price with the regular courier guy.

I really fail to see the logic behind all this. The Govt. is killing 3 birds with 1 stone:
1. The courier industry : which will see a big hit to business
2. The common people : ho will have to suffer a lot of pains to send a piece of paper in a time when an e-mail reaches its intended recipient in a few seconds.
3. The State Exchequer : which spend money collect from the common people by way of taxes to keep this almost defunct postal dept. afloat.

The Govt. seems to be getting crazier by the day. And their "Leftist" partners seem to be happiest.

The preamble of the country reads :

WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and to secure to all its citizens:

JUSTICE, social, economic and political;

LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship;

EQUALITY of status and of opportunity;

and to promote among them all

FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity and integrity of the Nation;

IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY this twenty-sixth day of November, 1949, do HEREBY ADOPT, ENACT AND GIVE TO OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION.

Somehow I don't see how the "Equality of status and of opportunity" is guaranteed when the govt. is killing off all these businesses.
The same is true in the quota issue also. Not too long ago some idiot wanted to enact a law making quotas in private sector compulsory.

Dumb, dumb politicians.....and dumber,dumber people who vote for these idiots.