No more love letters

World Post Day is celebrated on October 9.

A reporter from Television Vijesti spent a working day with Radiš Vešović, who brings people a wide variety of news.

Sometimes they are joyful, sometimes they are sad, and sometimes they are just bills that need to be paid.

He says that citizens have a special bond with postmen who have been coming to their homes for years, and everyone recognizes the blue uniform and welcomes it.

"In this job, there aren't that many specified working hours, so it all depends on how much work there is that day, you work so much, you spend time in the field. Of course, we are most pleased with the people to whom we carry money documents, pensioners, social benefits, and least of all those to whom we carry some accusations, complaints, public bailiffs who are increasingly present," says Vešović.

Postmen work whether it's snowing, raining, hot sun, thundering or shining, so Radiša points out that not everyone can do this job. No matter what, the mail has to reach its destination, and a sense of direction is especially desirable in this job.

"I like this job first of all, the freedom and way of working that this job requires. I could never see myself in four walls closed to work at a computer and my working day goes by like that, I am such a person that's why I love this job work. In my opinion, it should first be a flexible person, because working with people requires certain requirements that you should have as a person and that, of course, you are flexible and responsible".

Vešović's admission that it was easier to do this job before because people have changed a lot. He adds that love letters, which were once easy to recognize, are still so rare today that they have almost died out. Radiša states that being a postman brings with it a number of interesting situations.

"It was really enough for these 18 years, but I would single out one that happened to a colleague when a Roma woman came to ask for a pension, the postman said that the pension was paid and then they asked to see who signed that check and that was enough illegible, the postman asked the lady if there is anyone in your family with the letter Z, and the lady replied "I have, Idriz".

The first postman in Montenegro was Špiro Martinović, who started delivering mail in 1841. Today, Radiša says that he and his colleagues do everything to do their job honorably and honestly.