Citizens from the north of Kosovo have not received shipments from Serbia for two months

Citizens from the north of Kosovo have not been receiving shipments from Serbia for two months, Nova.rs writes.

It all started at the end of May when the Kosovo Special Forces occupied the buildings of three municipalities with stun grenades and tear gas, and the current crisis apparently affected the business of the Post Office.

Namely, citizens in the north of Kosovo have been facing big problems for several years now, because a simple ordering of cosmetics, jewelry or something else is a real challenge, bearing in mind that many companies do not even send goods to Kosovo, and it is often impossible to pick up a package if the value is higher of 2,000 Serbian dinars, because then it is subject to customs control.

Precisely because of this, the residents from the north of Kosovo perform most of their duties at the post offices in Raska and Ribarice, while payment transactions still function smoothly.

In response to Nova.rs, the PostExpress of the Post of Serbia stated that "given that traffic with Kosovo is not working, shipments are being held in Kraljevo."

However, it was not specified what kind of traffic blockade it is meant.

They also add that the sender or recipient can submit a request for disposal of the shipment in the receiving or delivery phase.

If they want the shipment returned, they will have to pay the return postage.

Citizens in the north are currently receiving letters and similar shipments, but the inflow of any goods is not possible.

"Problems in the work of the post office make it much more difficult for it to function daily, bearing in mind that it picks up humanitarian aid packages that arrive from all over at the post office in Ribarice, to which it takes about an hour to drive, crossing the administrative line," Ljiljana Perovic from Zubin Potok, who is involved in humanitarian work, says.

"The woman who sent me the package says that the postmen told her that it was not known when it would be able to reach Kosovo," she added.

Back in 2013, Belgrade and Pristina, as a part of the dialogue in Brussels, signed an agreement for Telekom, which "legalized" the presence of the Post of Serbia in Kosovo.

Under this agreement, the parties agree to reach an agreement on postal matters in the future.

Even 10 years after the agreement, the Post of Kosovo did not fully expand in the north, just as the telephone networks of the Albanian operators Vala and Ipko did not fully expand either.

The fact that they cannot pick up a package at the post office is perhaps not the biggest problem for the residents of Kosovska Mitrovica, Zvecan, Leposavic, and Zubin Potok.

Elderly citizens have to go to one of the pharmacies in central Serbia to get prescription drugs.

They get by in different ways, and some even pay shop owners to buy them drugs for their therapy when they go to get their goods.

In recent weeks, there have been fewer and fewer Serbian products on store shelves, and it all started when the Government in Pristina banned the import of goods from Serbia, after, according to Belgrade's claims, Kosovo policemen were found in the territory of central Serbia, who were then arrested and then released.