In this age of instant messaging, the soft jingle of the postman’s cycle bell might be growing feebler. Ironically, in some minds though, that jingle only keeps gaining in intensity, almost achieving the resonance of a gong. That is the power of memories, enhancing the past, sometimes to distorted proportions. But nostalgia alone does not buttress postal services. Belief in its future does that too. As part of Postal Week, presenting two voices, one on the nostalgic value of postcards and postal services and the other on its continu
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