India Post offices to serve Universal Service obligation

Over 155,000 post offices in India are ready to serve the Universal Service Obligation, according to Director of Postal services (Mail Business), WB Circle, Harpreet Singh.

“The main aim of the postal department now is to manage post as a business,” Singh said speaking at a Customers’ meet at Yogayog Bhavan here today on the eve of World Post Day.

Singh said that the postal department would have to learn from the competitors and technological partners the need to focus on revenue generating sectors. For this purpose, he said, post office network had to be proliferated.

In the 11th plan, he said, Automated Mail Delivery System would be launched in big cities like Kolkata and Delhi “and this completely metamorphose the whole system”

He said though the postal department was a loss-making one, it was wholeheartedly trying to break-even in near future.