Today I went with a Turkish friend who had a chat with the manager of the sorting office at the PPT in Fethiye. I explained that living in Calis we had no postman from September to December 2007, so had no post. The postman has now been back just over two months and I still have post missing that was sent from UK during this period. "Where is it?" He informed me all post has now been delivered, I asked where my 10+ parcels and letters are and all he could do was repeat himself. I pointed out that rumors in Calis say that post was opened and kept by the postmen. His reply remained the same. I told him as far as I'm concerned someone is lying and my post has not just simply disappeared. Most of my parcels were from family and friends for my sons 3rd Birthday. I did ask him "What kind of person could steal a child's Birthday present". He just looked at the table and shrugged his shoulders.
It afternoons like this I really question living here. Poor Cem had no Birthday or Christmas cards/gift's from family and friends in the UK. It's the thought of someone opening the parcels and seeing children's wrapping paper. Birthday cards once they had opened them and found no money just a card with a number 3 and a cartoon character how difficult would it have been to seal it up again. What do I do tell family and friends, never to post anything to the children again because the post office will take it. Next year when Cem is 4 and understands a bit more do I tell him grandma etc has not sent to him because the postmen will steal it so he has to go without. That's not what I moved here for.
I'm all right now after a few cups of tea but still so angry.
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[?] Is anyone else in Calis still missing post from UK that was sent during this time? [?]
Can you let me know as I am going to write to the local paper's, the mayor or head of PPT or maybe all 3, I'm not sure yet.. I know I will not get my stuff back but I'm not going to just sit here and let them think they can do this to me