The Hon. Thurairasa Ravikaran
Hon. Thurairasa Ravikaran raised concerns about severe postal delays in Mullaitivu District, noting that a postal transaction vehicle provided under the “North’s Spring” programme was withdrawn during COVID-19 and has not been restored. He said mail conveyance now depends on buses, causing even local ordinary, registered, or express post to take at least three days. He asked whether at least one dedicated postal vehicle could be restored to Mullaitivu this year to ensure parity in postal services.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Thank you. My second supplementary: Mullaitivu District suffers severe postal delays. A transaction vehicle once provided under the “North’s Spring” programme was withdrawn during COVID and not restored; postal conveyance now relies on buses. Even sending ordinary, registered or express post from Mullaitivu to Udayarkaddu, only 30 km away, takes at least three days. This undermines confidence in postal services. Will you restore at least one dedicated postal vehicle to Mullaitivu this year to ensure service parity?
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- Hansard, Wednesday, 8 April 2026 ·No. 23474 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Thurairasa Ravikaran. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 8 April 2026. No. 23474. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/902