India 2018

106 India 2018
Express Parcel is a premium parcel service available for retail as well as
bulk customers, offering time bound, safe and secure home delivery of parcels.
To have minimal transit time these parcels will be given airlift wherever needed.
Minimum chargeable weight of Express Parcel is 0.5 kg whereas maximum
chargeable weight for retail customers is 20 kg and for contractual customers it
is 35 kg.
Business Parcel aims to provide an economical distribution solution to
corporate customers by providing surface transmission of the parcels. Minimum
chargeable weight of parcels in this category is 2 kg and maximum weight is 35
kg. Service is available for all locations in the country.
Cash on Delivery
Increasing trend for online shopping has tremendous business opportunities
for payment services, order processing and fulfillment services, etc. In order to
cater to these business opportunities and to provide a fast, safe and economical
solution of collection of amount of goods at the time of its delivery and its
remittance to sender, Cash on Delivery facility was introduced in 2013 and is
available to the contractual customers of Express Parcel, Business Parcel and
Speed Post.
Logistics Post
Logistics Post was started to provide distribution solutions to the corporate
customers and it has created a niche market in providing express logistics
services with a large network in the country. As a part of Supply Chain solution,
Full Truck Load (FTL) services, Less Than Truck Load (LTL) services,
warehousing services, order processing and fulfillment services and reverse
logistics services are being provided by Department of Posts under Logistics
Post. There is no upper weight limit for Logistics Post consignment and the
minimum chargeable weight is 50 kg if consignments are sent through surface.
In case Logistics Post consignments are sent by air, minimum chargeable weight
is 25 kg.
Logistics Post Air service has started from 2013 linking following 15 cities:
Agartala, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Nagpur, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai,
Pune, Ahmedabad, Imphal, Guwahati, Patna, Lucknow, Thiruvananthapuam.
Retail Post
Post Office is being developed as a one-stop shop to provide a range of utility
services to the customers providing convenience and affordability at their door
steps. Retail Post leverages the vast network of 1,55,000 post offices and the
services under it include collection of electricity bill, telephone bills, taxes, fees,
sale of Rakhi envelopes, address verification service, sale of application forms
of various educational institutions and recruiting agencies, etc.
In order to provide railway tickets through convenient locations, railway
reservation tickets of all classes are being sold at the post offices in association
with the Ministry of Railways.