Dear Comrades,
The department of post is set to launch a revamped parcel service,
with quick delivery period, better packaging and security features from
July 19.
The new product would be launched in 20 cities across India,
including Lucknow and Agra in the Uttar Pradesh circle. “With a
centralised delivery system in place, the parcel service would cut down
parcel deliveries by at least two days,” postal headquarters UP circle
director Vivek Kumar Daksh said. He added that a new mechanised parcel
and logistic hub-processing centre was also under consideration for
improving services.
In Lucknow, the new parcel services would be made available at
prominent post offices, including General Post office (GPO), Chowk, New
Hydrabad, Gomti Nagar, Nirala Nagar, Mahanagar, Aliganj, Indira Nagar,
SGPGI, IIM, LDA colony, Aminabad, Alambagh and Rajajipuram. The facility
would be available for both retail and bulk customers in ordinary and
express forms.
Senior officials at the postal department said the new system, which
was an India Post initiative, would scrap at least two processes
involved in the route of booking to delivery, that would help cut down
on the delivery time. As of now, after the booking at the post offices,
the parcel is sent to the Railway Mail Service (RMS) office of the
source station, where it is processed and directed to the RMS of the
destination station. Thereafter it is sent to the concerned post office
and dispatched for delivery.
Officials explained that as in the new system, the processing time at
the RMS centres could be saved it would save at least two days in case
of distant parcel deliveries.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/
