{"id":84040,"date":"2017-10-20T08:28:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T08:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usmalayali.com\/?p=84040"},"modified":"2023-09-14T15:53:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T15:53:44","slug":"this-91-year-old-postman-still-serves-the-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/?p=84040","title":{"rendered":"This 91-year-old \u2018Postman\u2019 still serves the department."},"content":{"rendered":"
Johnson Cherian.<\/span><\/h5>\n
When he joined the Department of Posts as an \u2018outsider\u2019 in 1940, P.M. Gurusamy, popularly known as \u2018PMG\u2019 in the department circle, would have never imagined that he would remain integrated with the department for more than seven decades and continue his \u2018service\u2019 even after retirement.<\/span><\/h5>\n
While serving as an \u2018outsider\u2019 (casual worker) at Ramanathapuram Head Post Office after completing his third form (Class VIII), Mr. Gurusamy joined Quit India Movement in 1942.<\/span><\/h5>\n
He was sent to jail, but released the very next day as the jailor found him hardly 16 years old.<\/span><\/h5>\n
The jailor informed the Postmaster that Mr. Gurusamy faced no case and there was no bar on him to continue his service in the department.<\/span><\/h5>\n
On March 3, 1943, Mr. Gurusamy was posted as a Class IV employee at the post office in Mandapam.<\/span><\/h5>\n
After retiring as a Selection Grade Postman in 1985, Mr. Gurusamy \u2013 he is now 91 years old \u2013 has been visiting the Head Post Office for 32 years, helping people who visit the post office and promoting postal products, especially \u2018My Stamp\u2019, the personalised sheets of postage stamps of India Post.<\/span><\/h5>\n
He has been visiting the Head Post Office for two hours in the morning and an hour in the evening, helping people fill up forms, and deposit and withdraw money. He has also been encouraging them to start recurring deposit and savings bank accounts or join \u2018Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana,\u2019 designed for rural people who fall victims to dubious financial companies.<\/span><\/h5>\n
\u201cGod is keeping me in good health and I will continue the service as long as I can,\u201d he told The Hindu during an interaction. Recently, the Postmaster \u2018pulled him up\u2019 for coming late and he considered the \u2018reprimanding\u2019 as the biggest compliment. No one would visit the post office after retirement and Mr. Gurusamy is an exception, says N.J. Udaya Singh, Superintendent of Posts. He has popularised \u2018My Stamp\u2019 product in a big way, he adds.<\/span><\/h5>\n
\u201cI have a passion for \u2018My Stamp\u2019 and have got the personalised stamps for more than 150 people, including former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and his elder brother A.P.J. M. Maraikayar,\u201d says Mr. Gurusamy. Appreciating his service, Karaikudi Kamban Kazhagam has honoured him with \u2018Seva Ratna\u2019 award.<\/span><\/h5>\n
Mr. Gurusamy had served as a Postman in Dhanushkodi for five years since 1945 and continues to be the living link to the 1964 cyclonic tragedy that destroyed the post office and the once flourishing town.<\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Johnson Cherian. When he joined the Department of Posts as an \u2018outsider\u2019 in 1940, P.M. Gurusamy, popularly known as \u2018PMG\u2019 in the department circle, would have never imagined that he would remain integrated with the department for more than seven decades and continue his \u2018service\u2019 even after retirement. While serving as an \u2018outsider\u2019 (casual worker) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,44],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-english","8":"category-news"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166785,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84040\/revisions\/166785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}