Lamjung, January 17:

Post offices, which were displaced or damaged during the decade-long conflict, have not been reinstated in Lamjung district yet, depriving the people in many remote villages of their only means of communication.

Postmen of the respective post offices have been carrying out their duties from their houses.

Nineteen Additional Post Offices and four Area Postal Offices were destroyed by the Maoists during the conflict, the Lamjung District Post Office said. “The post offices are operating from the houses of the postmen in the lack of buildings,” Surya Prasad Soti at Lamjung DPO said.

“I have been carrying out my duty from out of the office for the past seven years,” Dhan Bahadur Gurung at Simbhanjyang Additional Post Office said.

“What can we do when there is no office building?” Gurung asked, adding, “We have no alternative but to use our homes as the office.” Chainasingh Tamang at Baglungpani Additional Post Office said she was also carrying out her duties from her home. There are 50 additional and 10 area postal offices in Lamjung.