Stamp expo draws crowds to post office

Dear Comrades,

MANGALORE: The huge and varied collection of stamps displayed at the head post office in the port city has been drawing the attention of people from all walks of life in the past few days. The exhibition organized as part of National Post Week will conclude today.

GDS ALLOWANCE PROTECTION

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GDS ALLOWANCE PROTECTION

The recommendation of the DDG LEVEL COMMITTEE is to grant protection for one year and to give chance to the GDS to improve the workload. Directorate orders will be issued accepting this recommendation as assured by Sri Sachin Pilot, Minister Communications for State to the JCA leaders at his residence.

-  M. Krishnan, S/G NFPE.

 

BONUS - 2012

Dear Comrades,

 

Postal Board has sent the Bonus File to the Hon'ble Minister Communications for approval. Regarding Enhancement of Bonus ceiling to GDS from 2500 to 3500. As the Finance has again rejected the proposal.

Communication Minister will be taking up the case with Finance Minister itself as per the assurance given to the JCA Earlier.

 

AIPEU P-III

Happy Vijaya Dashami

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Wish you all a very happy and holy 

Vijaya Dashami

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Mangalore: India Post Conducts Business Meet, Interaction with Customers

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Mangalore, Oct 13: The Indian post organized a business meet at their head office here in Pandeshwar on Thursday October 11.

The business meet also turned out to be a grievance meet as many of the customers came forward with their woes placing deficiency in postal services.

Speaking on the occasion, Harish TB, manager of speed post briefed on the services provided by Indian post. He said the main aim of the business meet was to create awareness among the people on the postal services.

India Post Stall at the Philately Exhibition organized by Sri Lanka Post

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India Post participated in the Philately Exhibition organized by Sri Lanka Post from 6 -10 October 2012 to mark the World Post Day celebrated across the world every year on 9 October.

A two member delegation from India Post led by Mrs. Meera Handa, Deputy Director Department of Posts, India participated in the Philately Exhibition by exhibiting some of the iconic stamps issued by India Post over the years. 

There was also a sales counter to sell some of the recently issued Indian Stamps, First Day Covers and Miniature Sheets. 

The Miniature Sheets on 2550 years of Mahaparinirvana of the Buddha, the stamp on Mahatama Gandhi printed on Khadi cloth, the first day covers issued on the Hundred Years of Civil Aviation in India and the London Olympics were some of the issues which received wide appreciation from a cross section of philatelists, members of the public and a large number of School children who visited the India Post stalls during the period. 

The India Post delegation also appreciated the support received from Sri Lanka Post and Secretary, Ministry of Postal Services, Government of Sri Lanka, in facilitating the exhibition and sale of Indian stamps. Sri Lanka Post, Ministry of Postal Services, Government of Sri Lanka, had issued a special postal stamp in the denomination of Rupees 5 and a First Day Cover on 7 May 2011 to commemorate 150th birth anniversary celebrations of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore.

The two sides also agreed to participate in similar events in the future and to work towards release of joint stamps to mark important occasions in the multi-faceted and dynamic India-Sri Lanka relationship.

- Asian Tribune -

Project to give postal address to inhabitants of slums

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Using a GPS-linked system, an Ireland-based company, aims to help locate dwellings in slums across the world.

The man who developed the project Alex Pigot earned praise yesterday from delegates at the World Postal Congress after he presented the project on the postal conclave day.

Pigot, who is the chairman and managing director of Go Code, has named the programme ‘Addressing the Unaddressed’. Pilot experiments were held at a slum in Chetla, in India’s Kolkata city, which has around 250,000 inhabitants. 

New postal service for safe delivery of articles next year

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A year is all that you have to wait for the postal department to launch a service where you get a receipt as a proof of safe delivery of “accountable articles” to the addressee of your choice.

The receipt or acknowledgement will come to a customer with the photograph and signature of the person who receives the article. The service is likely to be launched by the end of 2013.

Disclosing this at an interaction with customers here on Thursday, K. Chandrashekar, Senior Superintendent of Post Offices, Mangalore Region, said the “accountable articles” covered speed post, registered post and registered parcels.

He said that postal staff would carry a hand-held device with them to take the photograph of the addressee. 

Dr. Chandrashekar said that India Post was now working on the service (as a pilot project) and was likely to launch it by the end of 2013. India Post had launched mechanised sorting out (automatic mail processing) of postal letters in Delhi. It was being implemented in Kolkata now. It would be launched in Bangalore and Chennai next. Once it was implemented in a postal centre, it was mandatory to write the PIN (personal identification number) code on the letters.

A registered post or a parcel should be delivered only to the addressee. If not, it would be an “irregularity”, he said.

Dr. Chandrashekar said that the department aimed at computerising post offices in villages by the end of 2013.

He said speed post and registered post services at post offices in Ashoknagar, Hampankatta, Balmatta, and Surathkal and head post office at Pandeshwar had been extended up to 7 p.m. Railway mail service at the Central Railway Station worked for 24 hours all days.

The Hindu

World Postal Week

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To remind people about the existence and variety of services given in this era of technological advancements, the Jharkhand Circle of the Indian Postal Department is celebrating World Postal Week.

At a Press meet on Tuesday, Chief Postmaster General KK Sinha said, “We celebrate World Postal Week from October 9 every year. It marks the establishment of Universal Postal Union (1874). In 1969, a conference was organised in Tokyo where UPU Congress decided to celebrate World Postal Week.”

“At present, there 1.55 lakh post offices across the country, of which more than 80 per cent are in rural areas. Different kinds of programmes will be organised on each day of the week,” he added. “October 10 will be celebrated as Saving Bank Day, in which information about saving schemes of postal departments will be disseminated. Likewise, October 11 will be celebrated as Mail Day, October 12 as Philately Day, October 13 as Business Development Day and October 15 will be celebrated as Postal Life Insurance Day,” Sinha said.

Customer meets will be organised on October 13 in division offices in the State. School children will be made aware about the channel through which a mail passes.

 

Daily Pioneer

Customers pour out grievances

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Postal dept will reimburse the cost of the lost articles in 15 days: Official

The business meet organised by the Indian Post turned out to be a grievances meet, with many complaining about deficiency in services, on Thursday.

RTI activist Prakash Bhat pointed out that many a times the contents of the letter are written on acknowledgments and envelopes.

"This may look silly but is a big problem when one seeks information under the RTI Act. As we sign the acknowledgment, we can not question if the information mentioned on the acknowledgment is not present inside," he said.