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Joe Leesolee always thinks big. A former police officer, he is now a director at the headquarters for postal services in Monrovia, Liberia.

"The budget [of the post office] is very small in terms of the big dream we want to offer our people," he says.

Mail, according to Leesolee, ignores the entrenched social stratification that has been a source of so many of Liberia's problems.

"We breach divisions between the haves and the have-nots," says Leesolee.

While Leesolee knows many other places in Africa are increasingly turning to the internet for most of their communication needs, he is confident that his beloved 'snail mail' will be around for a while to come.

"How will you check your email when you don’t have electricity?" he asks.

Glenna Gordon is a journalist based in Monrovia