A worth TV Program

Switching over TV channels one after one, without seeing any program fully, is common among many people.  We are also not exempted from this illness. 

Today, as usual, I was changing channels to see any “GOOD” program is being telecasted, I came across a discussion show in Sun News.  It was a re-telecast.  4 people were discussing about impact of Social networking sites, how children were trapped in this net, how to come out of this etc.  Really, I feel, it was a good program.

Main point came out of this discussion was that we, parents, should be more careful and should know about these social networking sites, pros and cons of these sites, how to use these sites, what are the controls available on these sites, how to use them and lastly it should be our responsibility to guide the young generation.  Unless otherwise we know about it, we cannot control and educate our children.

Not spending quality time with children is also one of the main reasons why children are becoming addict to this situation, it was told.  Parents are not giving options to children what they can do but now-a-days they were asked NOT to do many things.  These social network sites give space for them to do whatever they were asked not to do.

It is stated that having an account in these network sites were viewed as “status” and more the number of “Friends” you have are treated as a “SOCIAL” and “ALL KNOWN” person. The data stated in the program that in India, 8 million members were there in FB in 2011 and it grown to 80 million in 2013.  Ten times in just 2 years.

The unfortunate issue is, there are no wide spread advertisements for such programs. For a film, there will be an advt. every 10 min for a week and almost for all “Serials” and “Products” there is plenty of advertisements.  It is very rare to see such good programs in TV now-a-days and something should be there to tell and share about such programs to many people well in advance.

Courier Service

One of the impacted service sector as part of privatization is Courier Services.  Many people prefer to send documents, letters (any one write letters today?) through private couriers only over using Indian Postal Service.

May be in the initial stage, the private courier service was working fine but my personal feeling is it made life miserable.

The disadvantages I am finding are

1. Cost is more compare to Indian Post
2. Time taken to deliver is much more than Indian Post
3. You will not get any proper response (in most of the cases) from the courier company in case there is a failure in delivery
4. No personal touch between service provider and user.  I remember how the post man will remember each and every member of every family in the area where he serves.
5. No timing for delivery by private courier.  They will come and knock the door at any time.  We know, when Post man will come and there is a regular timing for delivery.  We can accommodate our time according to that time to receive any important letter
6. No information left-out by courier person if the door is locked and pocket is undelivered.  I know a postman will leave a message that letter could not be delivered so that it can be collected from Post office.
7. It is a nightmare to get back the letter from a courier service provider as chain of people are engaged on outsource model and it was next to impossible to trace it. It is very much systematic in Indian Postal Service (Recent incident I met on Receipt of PAN card)
8. It happened many times that after receipt of SMS from Bank or such firms that statement is sent through courier never received by me. No compliant works in private courier. You will get prompt response from Indian Post.
9. Private courier person asking additional money stating he spent more time to locate the address for delivery !!!! Yes it happened really.
10. Courier Service providers mostly will not accept letters for all destinations

1. Still why many prefer Private Courier? Is it because of the myth that government employee will not work?