Postal Manual Vol. VIII - India Post

(ii) Where rent is now being charged, the system of granting licence should be introduced at
the earliest opportunity, subject to the condition that the licence fees should not normally be
less than what would be recoverable under the existing rules.
(iii) Where is no recovery is made at present, a minimum amount of 50 paise per month
should be recovered from the letter-writers as licence fee.
(iv)In exceptional cases (which, it is presumed, will be few and far between) in which it is
considered desirable not to recover any licence fee, the question of exempting the
professional letter-writers from the payment of such fee should be referred to the Directorgeneral
of Posts and Telegraphs for orders.
(v)When a letter-writer enters into a lease with this Department (the lease may be given for a
period of three years, the licence fee being payable in advance every year), he need not
execute a security bond.
(vi) The exception of a security bond need not also be insisted in the case of professional
letter-writer who do not handle any valuables such as postal stamps or stationery and also
when these letter-writers purchase stamps with their own cash and sell them to the public.
(vii) In case in owhich security bonds are executed by professional letter-writers, the amount
of security should be fixed at double the average daily sale of stamps.
(viii) If security is furnished in the form of fidelity bond, the bond should be executed in the
same form which has hitherto been used, and specimen copy of which was forwarded to all
Heads of Circles with the Director-General of Posts and telegraph’s letter No. 990-ESA/32,
dated the 24 th January, 1933. As this is not a printed from sufficient number of copies may
be prepared by the stencil process to meet actual requirements. Security may also be
furnished in cash or by endorsement of Government securities or by execution of a personal
security bond with two solvent sureties. Personal security bonds involve the Department in a
good deal of work in connection with the verifications of the solvency of the sureties and in
realising the amount for which they become liable. In view of this , the furnishing of
security by means of personal security bonds by this class of employees should be
discouraged as far as possible.
(4) Every post office, at which a professional letter-writer is allowed to carry on business on the
premises, will be supplied by the Superintendent with printed notices, (MS-42) in English
and the vernacular showing the fixed scale of fees. These notices will be pasted or hung in a
prominent position near the place where the professional letter-writer sits. He will fix the
scale of fees to be charged by them for the following and the other classes of work done by
them:-
(a) Addressing a letter.
(b) Addressing a postcard.
(c) Addressing a Parcel
(d) Filling in a money order form, value-payable form, saving bank form, or any other postal
form.
(e) Writing a telegram.
(f) Writing a letter of drawing up a petition or sealing an article intended for transmission by
post.