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Somalia’s government has restarted its postal system after 20 years. Its return is just one example of Somalia getting back to normal after its long period of political troubles.
Read the lesson on Somalia’s postal service resumption after two decades. Be ready to answer the questions that follow.
https://breakingnewsenglish.com/1410/141016-postal-service-1.html
Discussion Questions:
- How important do you think is the postal service to a country?
- How long do you think it will take for Somalia to be as “forward” as other countries are right now?
- Has your country ever experienced some kind of interruptions in services due to political problems? Talk about it.
- What are the most important things to focus on when a country is recovering after a long period of chaos?
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1.How important do you think is the postal service to a country?
In underdeveloped countries like Somalia, the importance of the postal service grows, since they lack other means of communication, technologically speaking.
2.How long do you think it will take for Somalia to be as “forward” as other countries are right now?
They will advance slowly, like the growth of their country. They will always lag behind developed countries.
3.Has your country ever experienced a devastation?
Yes of course, but not currently, but during the civil war from 1936 to 1939.Spain is currently not experiencing these types of interruptions due to political problems.
4.What are some of the factors to consider when a country is getting back on their feet after a tragedy?
In my opinion, the main points are food, health, houses and education.
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1.- The postal service is very important because te people receive letter and they send letter to other persons. The postal service is very necesary.
2.- Much time, because Somalia is a country witth a lot of problems.
3.- Since the Civil wars en 1936, Spain hasn’t politics problems, and the society has prospered.
4.- The post important things when a country is recovering after a long period of chaos, are the health, the education and the food
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How important do you think is the postal service to a country?
I think is important at the moment, although we have email now it is less secure than postal service, because computer security is not 100% secure, allowing identity theft and facilitating scams.
How long do you think it will take for Somalia to be as “forward” as other countries are right now?
I’m not sure maybe 1 year or more, everything depends on the performance of the society
Has your country ever experienced some kind of interruptions in services due to political problems? Talk about it.
Maybe in civil war, i don’t know about that.
What are the most important things to focus on when a country is recovering after a long period of chaos?
The most important thing is to want to progress, work as a group and stay calm
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1. How important do you think is the postal service to a country?
I think it is very important. It allows the country to communicate to other countries. I think it is a basic service for communication, especially poor people that cannot pay other services such as telephone.
2. How long do you think it will take for Somalia to be as “forward” as other countries are right now?
I do not know, for sure it is not going to be fast because it is a very difficult situation. And it depends on what countries you compare it, if the country is very reach as Norway or you compare it to another less developed.
3. Has your country ever experienced some kind of interruptions in services due to political problems? Talk about it.
I do not really know because I was not there, but maybe after the Civil War. A war is very expensive for a country and a lot of resources are lost. Furthermore, after the Civil War Spain was in a dictatorship.
4. What are the most important things to focus on when a country is recovering after a long period of chaos?
In my opinion, the main points are food, health, houses and education. After these points are covered a country can focus on the rest of the basic services.
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1. How important do you think is the postal service to a country?
In my opinion, it was a basic service, but now it is old fashioned because nowadays there are many other ways to communicate. Anyway there are private companies which can provide the service.
2. How long do you think it will take for Somalia to be as “forward” as other countries are right now?
I think it is complicated to estimate. Maybe they will be never as other countries o maybe they will progress very quickly.
3. Has your country ever experienced some kind of interruptions in services due to political problems? Talk about it.
I don’t really know. Perhaps during the civil war
4. What are the most important things to focus on when a country is recovering after a long period of chaos?
In my opinion, most important things are basic services for population such as education, health and food. Then jobs so people can evolve.
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1. How important do you think is the postal service to a country?
I think that it is very important for any country, because it open new doors to stablish news and better relathions with other countries and it could help to improve the economy
2. How long do you think it will take for Somalia to be as “forward” as other countries are right now?
In my opinión until Somalia Will be as forward as other countries it Will take a long time, because they have another several problems like wars and poverty
3. Has your country ever experienced some kind of interruptions in services due to political problems? Talk about it.
I don`t know, but is possible when the civil war it happened, because we was in war and this things are less important than kill the enemy.
4. What are the most important things to focus on when a country is recovering after a long period of chaos?
I think that people don´t get hungry, because this is the first point to improve a civilization.
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1. How important do you think is the postal service to a country?
I think that is very important a postal service to a country when that I think that is very important a postal service to a country when that country is poor, because nowadays there are several companies that they perform that kind of service, but a postal service must be a government service that makes easy and cheap that service.
2. How long do you think it will take for Somalia to be as “forward” as other countries are right now?
Well, I don’t know how long it will take for Somalia to be as forward as other countries are just now but I think that it is going to take several years.
2. Has your country ever experienced some kind of interruptions in services due to political problems? Talk about it.
I’m not sure but I think that spanish service postal has never been totally interrupted by political problems, at Spanish Civil War there was difficulties but it didn´t completely stop.
2. What are the most important things to focus on when a country is recovering after a long period of chaos?
I think that the most important things to focus on are to put on the basics services like electrical and water nets, health and food services, transport, etc.
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1. How important do you think is the postal service to a country?
Postal service is very important. But I think that it really depends on the country.
In Somalia it will be much more important than in Spain, because in developed countries, we almost always use technology to communicate. We hardly ever use postal services.
2. How long do you think it will take for Somalia to be as “forward” as other countries are right now?
If anything changes I think that they will continue as they are. Maybe if people do something to improve their situation, they could start growing as a country, not as the same level as other developed countries, but over several decades, Somalia can begin to develop more and more.
3. Has your country ever experienced some kind of interruptions in services due to political problems? Talk about it.
Spain hasn’t experienced this kind of interruptions due to political problems. The online similar one, has been covid. It resulted in shops, banks, jobs and supermarkets being closed and many economic problems.
4. What are the most important things to focus on when a country is recovering after a long period of chaos?
The most important thing for a country after a long period of chaos is to recover its economy promoting tourism, encouraging people to go out, eating and dining at restaurants, buying in local shops…and socially it is important to be near your friends and family, to be together and support each other.
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· How important do you think is the postal service to a country?
– It really is very important. Even though people don’t send letters to anyone, services like banks or electric companies still send their bills.
·How long do you think it will take for Somalia to be as “forward” as other countries are right now?
-A long time. It is difficult to overcome 20 years of wars.
·Has your country ever experienced some kind of interruptions in services due to political problems? Talk about it.
-No, I think during Spanish civil war the postal service didn’t stop.
·What are the most important things to focus on when a country is recovering after a long period of chaos?
-The two most important things a country should think about is healthcare and education.
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1- I think that the postal service is very important in countries without good connection with the other countries. If you have internet or phone is less necessary but never should be disappear this system.
2- It’s difficulte knows this but I think that Somalia have a long long path for have a good system of comunication with other countries.
3- I don’t remember having a similar situation, but I can see that happening when maybe the Internet in a house is slow or doesn’t work better, it’s a big problem to work or just not being able to watch a movie or TV series, it’s something that now we can’t even think about it.
Just thinking that society wouldn’t have the option to connect to the internet or make a phone call would be a real chaos.
4- The most real important is the economy. The moss necesary for a go up a society, create work and move of industry.
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1. Extremly important, it´s not only because of the letters also because of all the burocratic issues that you do on them. In my coutry you go to the postal service to quit work.
2.
It depends on the money they were agree to spend in. More money more developed
3.Thank God, my country has neves experience some kinf of interruption.
4. form me the most important things are work, work and more work for people. some kind of subvention for the people to be able to recovered
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In my opinion, it’s very important to have postal service as it allows communication with the outside world that may be limited with the telephone. Personally, I’m not aware of any season in which my country has interrupted postal service. Possibly years ago during wartime.
The road to improvement will be slow and it will take time for Somalilanders to feel secure and confident in the process. So I think it’s very important to be resilient and never lose hope.
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I cannot imagine a country without postal service, the absence of postal service reflects the deep problems in Somalia.
In my opinion, education is the only way to solve these problems, but it is a long way, Somalia will need at least 30 years to get out of these problems, this is one of the first steps.
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1.- It is very important since a large part of the information and communication between people in a country depends on the postal service
2.- I Think that for a long time, they need help from advanced countries and from many people who go there voluntarily to help
3.- Yes of course, but no in modern times, there was a civil war many years ago that lasted 3 years
4.- Many factors, help from other countries, economy, health, many everything depends on financial helps
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1. How important do you think is the postal service to a country?
For a country, it is important to have all possible means of communication.
2. How long do you think it will take for Somalia to be as “forward” as other countries are right now?
African countries have different problems than Europeans. Compared to the surrounding countries, I suppose they will be on the same level.
3. Has your country ever experienced a devastation?
There was a civil war and then a dictatorship that put us behind in comparison to Europe.
4. What are some of the factors to consider when a country is getting back on their feet after a tragedy?
Provide food, education and create jobs.
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