Postmen will carry stationery to be sold to the residents: Pilot
project launched in the Chennai
Now, get postcards and stamps at your doorstep
CHENNAI, October 24, 2016 Now, customers don’t have to travel to post offices
to buy stamps or postcards. The postman would instead deliver it at their
houses.
The
latest initiative of the Postal Department has postmen who are out to deliver
mails also to sell postal stationery. Postmen will carry postage stamp, revenue
stamps, envelopes, postcards and inland letters to be sold to the residents.
This is a pilot project launched in the
Chennai city region. The postmen will also collect registered post and speed
post from the residents. Customers can also affix stamps and hand over the
mails to them instead of visiting the post office or searching for a postbox.
The
postmen will carry a rate chart with them and will issue receipt for the speed
posts and registered articles either on the same day or next day. The
initiative will be particularly useful to commercial establishments and
residents in suburban areas, an official said.
There are over 1,000 postmen in the city. Each
will carry Rs. 350 worth postal stationery whenever they step out for delivery.
Nearly 50 per cent of the stationery are sold everyday, the official added.
Welcoming
the move, residents said it would help senior citizens save the trips to post
offices. Consumer activist, T. Sadagopan, meanwhile, suggested that the postmen
also carry identity cards.
Source: http://www.thehindu.com
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