Dear Comrades,
The world’s largest postal networks ,’India Post’ launches more web based services in the year 2012. The Department has undertaken a project to set up Automated Mail Processing Centers in six major cities with a view to automate mail sorting.
India Post on more web driven services
The letter sorting machines would be able to sort approximately 35000 articles per hour whereas the Mixed Mail Sorter would sort approximately 16000 articles per hour. The Mixed Mail sorting machines would help in faster processing of large size letters flats and packets/ parcels through the use of Optical Character Recognition technology. Automation in mail processing would also help the department in modernization of mail network, consolidation of sorting activities and expedite mail sorting and delivery in these cities.
An e-Post office Portal was also commissioned during the current year for e-Commerce activity of the Department of Posts .The portal will enable the customers to transact postal business any time and from anywhere using either debit card or credit card through the internet.
India Post has undertaken and initiative to put in place a national address database management system with an objective to effectively manage the address database of public or customers, update the addresses online, and help the customers in locating correct addresses and PIN codes.
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