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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