DEAR readers, The Postman will take a one-month break after this long season along with the likes of the Beautiful Team, the Sour Devils, and the Ranting Reds.
It’s not because my hands are as tired as the Portuguese Peacock’s legs.
It’s because after three years of The Postman’s interactive print-cum-online series where readers’ views are carried every week in a mailbag format in The New Paper, it’s time for a revamp.
When I first returned from the 2006 World Cup, blogs were the in-thing then, so I started The Postman’s friendly neighbourhood at tnppostman.com.
Following our Question of the Week and Weekend format, we’ve had close to 200 weekly and monthly winners all enjoying various prizes ranging from football boots, and tennis and running shoes, to audio-visual gadgets and even leg shavers for female fans.
Singaporeans based overseas visit us regularly online too, from the US, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
And we’ve had hits from regions as far as Chile and Brazil.
Some of our readers have even become Postman personalities themselves, as well-known among our readers as our football writers like Gary Lim, and that is someone like Chester “Not-Really-Nostradamus” Low.
To draw you back online every day now, we’ve had our Thought of the Day where my assistant Postman Lim Say Heng has waxed lyrical about the hottest daily topics.
But since we started this series in late 2006, Facebook, Twitter and social networking has taken the world by storm.
So we will spend the whole of next month (call it The Postman’s pre-season) to revisit what has worked, and what we can do to engage you more online and in the paper from July onwards.
But don’t worry, you can still visit us online every day at tnppostman.com to see what The Postman is planning in the meantime.
Cheers,
Ernest Luis
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