The locals of Rijeka Crnojevića have been having a problem for months - they claim that the postmen do not deliver their pensions, but also bills for electricity, utilities, and other receipts and shipments.
As they explained in their complaint to "Vijesti", they complained to the authorities several times, but the problem was not resolved.
They state that they are most affected in the village of Drušići, because mostly elderly people live there.
"There are a lot of elderly people in that area, who can't go anywhere else to get bills, pay them or do something else. Cetinje is far away", said one of the locals.
As he explained, there is no Post office in Rijeka Crnojevića, so the locals can't pick up bills there either, receive money or some other shipments, so they manage.
"I pay the bills when I go to the city where I live, but what about the elderly who can't do that?" At the same time, we allocate money for the delivery of invoices. That's not right, imagine when someone from these remote villages has to constantly go to Bar, Cetinje or somewhere else".
The Crnojevića River is located between Podgorica and Cetinje.
The Post of Montenegro confirmed to "Vijesta" that there is a problem with the delivery of invoices in that area.
"On June 2020, XNUMX, the Post Office of Montenegro signed a contract with a new franchising partner for the area of Rijeka Crnojevića, which will enable the locals to use services in the field of postal traffic without hindrance. Therefore, the post office is open, and the delivery of shipments and receipts will be in order," Vesna Goljević Novović, spokeswoman for that state-owned enterprise, told "Vijesta". As she explained, the franchising recipient is a legal entity that provides services in the field of postal traffic, according to the contract concluded with the Post of Montenegro. She pointed out that the contract with the previous partner "was terminated precisely in the period to which the complaints of our users from Rijeka Crnojević refer." "According to the contract on service franchising, which the Post Office signs with its partners, the franchisee is obliged to provide services in the field of postal traffic in a certain area, according to the rules prescribed by the Post Office".
The settlement of Rijeka Crnojević was created in the middle of the 15th century, when the then ruler of Montenegro, Ivan Crnojević, transferred the seat of the state and the church to that area, so the river and the place were named after his lineage.
The town is popularly called the Montenegrin Venice, and the remains of historical buildings from the time of Ivan Crnojević have been preserved, such as the basement of a long-destroyed building, which is connected to the work of the Obod printing house, where the first Cyrillic book "Octoich prvoglasnik" was printed in 1494. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, Rijeka Crnojevića was the largest Montenegrin port and a leading trade center.
A building that is particularly attractive to tourists who visit Rijeka Crnojevića is Danilov Most, which was built by Prince Danilo in 1853, in memory of his father Stanko Petrović.
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