A unique post office near the famed Hindu
temple at the Sabarimala hills allows you to post letters to God. It is
used by people to post invitation cards for weddings and shop openings,
seeking divine blessings from Lord Ayyappa
The post office is also open for 10 days during the Vishu season.
Functioning six days a week from 8 in the morning to 8 at night, the six employees, led by 23-year-old Sai G. Prakash, have a lot to do.
Prakash is happy to be here, and says he was a devotee of Lord Ayyappa.
“Our post office mostly gets invitation cards for weddings and shop openings addressed to Lord Ayyappa, obviously to seek divine blessings,” Prakash said.
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Most such mail come from Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, he said.
By Sanu George
Located near the famed Hindu temple at
the Sabarimala hills, the post office may perhaps be the only one in the
country which doesn’t work round the year. It comes alive when the peak
pilgrimage season of the Ayyappa shrine begins on the first day of the
Malayalam month in November, and the period ends towards the middle of
January.
The post office is also open for 10 days during the Vishu season.
Functioning six days a week from 8 in the morning to 8 at night, the six employees, led by 23-year-old Sai G. Prakash, have a lot to do.
Prakash is happy to be here, and says he was a devotee of Lord Ayyappa.
“Our post office mostly gets invitation cards for weddings and shop openings addressed to Lord Ayyappa, obviously to seek divine blessings,” Prakash said.
.
Most such mail come from Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, he said.
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