Postal Manual Vol. VIII - India Post

153. Deleted.
Chapter 2, Rule 153-
Deleted this Rule
154. Check on clearness of date-stamp impressions. – In order to give supervising
offices frequent opportunities of seeing whether the date-stamps used by sub and branch office
under their control for stamping articles posted, are kept clean and in good order, and whether
suitable stamping ink is used, every communication addressed to them will be impressed by a suboffice
with its combined date-stamp, and by a branch office, with its date-stamp in addition to any
other stamps that may be required by the paper for form on which the communication is written.
Superintendents should see whether the stamp impressions on documents received by them are
clean and clear, any defects that may be shown by the impressions being promptly noticed.
Superintendents, R.M.S.
155. Distribution of work in offices and sections.- (1) The Superintendent must prepare
for each office or section in the division which has a staff of more than one person a memorandum
of distribution of work, specifying the duties to be performed by each official (including subsidiary
sorters and candidates), the attendance hours of sets and the case of a section, also the hour and
place at which the set should be present at the station and wait till the arrival of the train.
(2) In the case of a record office, the memorandum should specify the hours during which
the record clerk must be present in the office, the work he is to do in the office, the trains he is
required to attend and the work to be done by him on the platform. In case the record clerk is
assisted by one or more sorters, the work-papers to be examined by each official should also be
specified.
(3) In the case of a sorting section or sorting mail office, the memorandum should show in
detail for each sorter the mail bags and branch office bags the contents of which should be
examined and packed by him, the examination of the more important bags being assigned to the
senior sorters of the set including the head sorter. Where the work is light enough during any
portion of a trip to allow one or more sorters of a section to rest, the Superintendent may permit
such rest to be taken specifying distinctly the period of rest and the stores at the record office on
attendance day, should be apportioned among the sorters and detailed in the memorandum.
(4) Copies of these memoranda should be furnished to the record offices, mail offices , and
Inspectors concerned.
NOTE 1.- See rule 160.
NOTE 2.- The Superintendent may if he considers it necessary, issue a memorandum of the
duties to be performed by the official in single handed offices and sections.
156. Diagram of sorting case.- The Superintendent should prepare, for the sorting sections
and sorting mail offices in his division, diagrams showing the manner in which the compartments
of the sorting-case should be arranged and labelled. In the case of sections, there should be
separate diagram for the out-trip and in-trip. These diagrams should be furnished to the sorting
sections, record offices and mail offices concerned.
157. Time-tables for sorting sections.- The Superintendent should prepare for the sorting
sections in his division time-tables of the trains by which they work. The time-table should be
furnished to the record offices concerned.
158. Deleted.
Chapter 2, Rule 153-
Delete this rule.