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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

TTPost urges citizens to update info

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Akash Samaroo
2085 days ago
20191022
TTPost Franchise holder Allyson Holder, left, shows a poster to chairman Eula Rogers, managing director of TTPost, George Alexis and George Nicholas Martin product manager courier and Express Mail Service following the opening ceremony of the TTPost new franchise in celebration of 20 years at Grand Bazaar yesterday

TTPost Franchise holder Allyson Holder, left, shows a poster to chairman Eula Rogers, managing director of TTPost, George Alexis and George Nicholas Martin product manager courier and Express Mail Service following the opening ceremony of the TTPost new franchise in celebration of 20 years at Grand Bazaar yesterday

ABRAHAM DIAZ

Akash Sama­roo

A postal code is some­thing com­mon in for­eign ju­ris­dic­tions, but it may still be for­eign to cit­i­zens of this coun­try.

So, when peo­ple re­ceived their postal code cards from their re­spec­tive re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tions, many al­so no­ticed a change in ad­dress.

And with that comes a se­ries of ques­tions; do I have to in­form the util­i­ty com­pa­nies? Do I have to up­date my dri­ver’s per­mit? Will this af­fect my deed of own­er­ship for my prop­er­ty? Well, there isn’t one an­swer for all.

But let’s ex­plain the ra­tio­nale for postal codes.

Act­ing man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of TTPost George Alex­is said the postal code ini­tia­tive, which is be­ing im­ple­ment­ed in a phased ba­sis since 2012, seeks to stan­dard­ise ad­dress­es in com­pli­ance with in­ter­na­tion­al best prac­tice. What it al­so does is give home own­ers a spe­cif­ic mail­ing ad­dress.

“In Trinidad you may have a num­ber, light pole 586 and you may have five to six hous­es us­ing that same num­ber and ad­dress, this brings a lev­el of con­for­mi­ty to in­ter­na­tion­al best prac­tice in how ad­dress­es are laid out to the pub­lic.”

Chair­man of TTPost Eu­la Rogers said this can al­so help first re­spon­ders ze­ro in on a lo­ca­tion as now each house will have a spe­cif­ic ad­dress.

But for those who al­ready had spe­cif­ic ad­dress­es, they may see that it has now changed. For ex­am­ple, if you lived at 12 Smith Street, you may now see your new ad­dress as 19 Smith Street.

Both Alex­is and Rogers are sug­gest­ing that as you get your up­dat­ed ad­dress and postal code, you up­date that in­for­ma­tion, at least with your util­i­ty com­pa­nies and banks.

“So, you have your mail com­ing in from WASA, T&TEC or your in­sur­ance com­pa­nies, there is an oblig­a­tion to up­date those ad­dress­es, we’re work­ing on a mech­a­nism to up­date the in­for­ma­tion with­out hav­ing to go to the util­i­ties,” said Alex­is.

That pro­posed mech­a­nism is an on­line por­tal but ac­cord­ing to Alex­is, un­for­tu­nate­ly that is not yet up and run­ning.

Some of these changes will come with a cost.

For ex­am­ple, to change your dri­ver’s per­mit. TTPost is again sug­gest­ing that you up­date the per­mit giv­en that Gov­ern­ment in­tends to roll out its ini­tia­tive to mail traf­fic tick­ets.

How­ev­er, it says if the DP is close to its ex­piry date, then the hold­er should wait till then to re­new and up­date the in­for­ma­tion.

Guardian Me­dia asked about those with years left on their ex­ist­ing per­mit and were told that in­for­ma­tion still need­ed to be sort­ed out with the Li­cens­ing Di­vi­sion.

Sim­i­lar clar­i­ty is need­ed for the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion. Rogers said the change in ad­dress does not af­fect where you vote as elec­toral bound­aries were not al­tered. But what about the mail­ing of polling cards? Guardian Me­dia con­tact­ed Chief Elec­tions Of­fi­cer, Fern Nar­cis Scope who said a meet­ing with TTPost on that very mat­ter will take place to­day.

How­ev­er, one of the biggest ques­tions is, will this af­fect my deed of own­er­ship?

“No No it does not, this is a mail­ing ad­dress we keep stress­ing that,” said Rogers.

There still ap­pears to be some de­tails to iron out, as some peo­ple have re­port­ed re­ceiv­ing more than one postal code card with dif­fer­ent ad­dress­es.

TTPost says this process has not been com­plet­ed and it ex­pects there will be some is­sues. It is ask­ing cit­i­zens to come for­ward with those prob­lems. It hopes that in 4 to 6 months, every­one will have their postal code and up­dat­ed ad­dress. Un­til then it is strong­ly ad­vis­ing those in re­ceipt of cards to up­date their in­for­ma­tion as that in­for­ma­tion is now their new mail­ing ad­dress go­ing for­ward.


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