30 to 40 Unopened Letters for Ang Mo Kio Residents Found Dumped Inside Rubbish Bin

Well, you would think that when one is paid to do a job, one does it well right?

I mean, look at the Goody Feed articles written by our well paid writers; they are informative, written with a generous dose of humour, up to date and right on point to boot.

They are so good that we’ve come up with a library to archive all our articles for you, readers, in one place.

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Shameless self-plugging aside, I’m seriously, dead-panned, serious when it comes to the job thing.

So imagine, not mine, but Facebook user,Alyce Kathlyn’s incredulity when she found not one, not two, but threety – I mean thirty to forty – sealed letters, including a package that appeared to consist of goods, left for dead inside a rubbish bin in Ang Mo Kio.

Letters in a Bin

While that sounds like an indie band or the next never-to-be-made-into-a-movie romance novel by Nicholas Sparks, I can assure you that pretty much sums up Alyce’s 28 January post.

And here it is:

If your mouse isn’t functioning or you don’t know how to activate your trigger finger, the caption reads:

This is why you will NEVER receive your mails and parcel from Singapore Post.

Postman actually threw the letters and parcel into the bins. This is not the first time we’ve found this in Ang Mo Kio.

LTA/CHAS government letters – unopened are all being dumped

Here are some of the images:

The face-value facts and questions arising are shocking:

• These letters are clearly unseal, indicating they never were read.
• The mails include private business, private letters and even official correspondences from National University of Singapore,  Land Transport Authority, and even Community Health Assist Scheme (CHAS) government letters. (CHAS according to their website “enables Singapore Citizens from lower- and middle-income households to receive subsidies for medical and dental care at participating General Practitioners (GPs) and dental clinics near their home. – Which means these letters are very much needed by their recipients.)
• Delivery addresses appear to be for two blocks in Ang Mo Kio Avenue 4 and 5; respectively for Block 175 and 182.
• There is at least one unopened package which appears to contain goods, not letters (no sane soul would discard a package)
• Is that greyish-white feather-looking thing a bird, or from half a bird?
• Is the chrysanthemum drink truly finished?

Rommel (from Singpost) Responds (Again)

With more than 5.6K shares and 144 comments at time of writing this article, it is little wonder SingPost had taken action earlier in response to Alyce.

Here’s the post:

While there were some who lambasted Rommel for asking the exact location of those mails- I mean come on guys just give him a break-, it must be said that should be the right protocol despite addresses clearly presenting themelves in Alyce’s images.

Use your brain folks.

But more importantly, this Rommel- well what can I really say- appears to be the Balotelli of the snail-mail world.

Because, if your memory serves you right as it does mine, this appears to be the same Rommel who back in December took to the unsafe streets of Facebook comment section to reach out to Andy Lau.

You can read about Singpost’s most recent misadventures below:

SingPost postman allegedly took a shortcut-so he wont need to deliver item.

SingPost Staff Caught Red Handed Cheating Customer and Police Report made.

Singpost Finally & Suddenly Apologised Openly After Numerous Complaints Recently.

That said, I’ve just two things to say.

One, Rommel, have you gotten a promotion yet?

Two, what if, just what if, these letters were discarded by people who chose not to read them nor received the one said goods?

#Justasking

SingPost Has Replied

Earlier this morning, SingPost has officially replied through their Facebook Page:

Lest you can’t read:

SingPost is aware that images of letters allegedly discarded in a bin are circulating online. Based on the addresses on the letters, a team was immediately dispatched to comb the area overnight.

The bin was located and the team expanded its search to every bin within the vicinity, with no success of locating the letters. Letter boxes were also opened to check if these letters had been delivered to affected recipients.

Concurrently, our customer service team has gotten in touch with the Facebook user but has not received a reply as it was late in the night. We are also conducting interviews with the postman on duty.

Our main priority currently is to locate the letters and have them delivered to intended recipients.

Please bear with us as we continue to investigate this and will provide an update as soon as possible.