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“We do not get joined-up healthcare like other adults with life-long conditions and there are no clear care pathways. At the age of 18, we are basically just told to ‘get on with it’.” The petition’s key demand, “Care Parity for CP”, is simple enough to fit on the back of a stamp, says Livingstone (literally so – flip the celebrity faces over to see it).
Postal stall in Nepal
Reported at https://kathmandupost.com
that no letters or packages came in or went out from the country. While they started coming in when international flights resumed in September, outbound posts are still not happening. “Our agreement was with Thai Airways so when everything came to a halt we were unable to continue our outbound service,” said a Nepal Post spokesman. “Establishing another agreement for the outbound postal service is not as easy as one assumes. Our rules don’t allow us to work with different airlines.” Nepal’s postal service does not use cargo flights but depends on passenger flights to keep the service affordable to citizens. Despite its importance, a reflection of the authorities’ attitude to providing postal services is the fact that services to India restarted only in March even though air services resumed in December. As for the rest of the world, the contractual
Recently Harka Tamang went to the GPO at Kathmandu to send a package to a friend in Germany. However, he was told that the post office was not taking outbound letters and parcels except to India. “I was surprised that such an important service was not functioning,” said the tour guide. “Their reason was their carrier, Thai Airways, was not doing international flights.” The suspension of international flights into the country in March last year meant Stamp News - 17
