Tag: Asia

Speed Post charges cut for local letters

Posted by | Jun 12, 2007 | |

The Department of Posts on Monday reduced local Speed Post charges for letters weighing up to 50 gm from Rs. 20 to 12 (including service tax). The service will be available in 1,200 towns across the country.
However, it has increased tariffs for parcels. For a parcel weighing above 500 gm and delivered in destinations 201-1,000 km away, apart from the regular charge of Rs. 45, Rs.15 will be payable for every extra 500 gm. Earlier the rate was Rs.10.
For a 51-200 gm parcel, Rs.70 will be charged for distances between 1,001 and 2,000 km and Rs. 80 for distances beyond 2,000 km. Earlier, the charges were Rs.60. For every additional 500 gm, Rs. 30 will be charged as against Rs. 20 now for 1,001-2,000 km and Rs. 40 as against Rs. 25 now for distances beyond 2,000 km.
At all Speed Post centres, articles meant for the same town will be delivered the same day or on the next working day. The Department would soon buy two cargo aircraft to deliver postal articles in the northeastern States and metros.
Launched in 1986, Speed Post has a market share of 27 per cent, with monthly traffic exceeding 1.4 crore articles.

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Overtime strike hits Railway Mail Service delivery

Posted by | Jun 11, 2007 | |

Overtime strike by around 500 group C and D employees of Railway Mail Service (RMS) in the ‘F’ division of Nagpur has badly affected the delivery of mail.

The employees, affiliated to National Federation Postal Employees (NFPE), are up in arms against the management for going back on its assurances to fulfill the genuine demands. The federation leaders said that they had submitted a charter of 15 demands to the divisional head in a meeting held on May 22.

The strike has been simultaneously launched at Nagpur, Malkapur, Gondia, Chandrapur, Yavatmal, Wardha, Akola and Amravati.

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FedEx Kinko's opens flagship store in Beijing

Posted by | Jun 11, 2007 | |

FedEx Kinko’s, a leading digital printing chain store in the world, opened a flagship store in Oriental Plaza in Wangfujing, Beijing, on June 8, 2007, bringing the total number of its stores in China to 13.

The 13 stores have been opened in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and five of the stores are located in the central business districts (CBD), Zhongguancun and Financial Street.

All the stores can provide customers a series of global-standard image processing services including designing, printing, binding and delivering.

It can provide nationwide solutions to customers, who can sign contracts in one place and print them anywhere else via the company. Customers can also print documents in one place and deliver them over the country and the world. Through the company, cost and time can be cut.

In addition, the company provides small-and medium-sized enterprises creative design, brochure, document writing and direct mail of business letters, and individuals resumes, graduation books and marriage books.

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Postal Department to sell State Bank of India products

Posted by | Jun 11, 2007 | |

The Department of Posts and Telegraph, Government of India, has tied up with the State Bank of India (SBI) for selling SBI’s term deposit certificates through its post offices. Post offices in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Orissa, Jharkhand and Rajasthan will be selling the SBI certificates. The Department already has similar arrangements with Corporation Bank, Union Bank of India and the Oriental Bank of Commerce.

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Pakistan Post to collect utility bills

Posted by | Jun 9, 2007 | |

Pakistan Post has launched a new service to collect utility bills at customers’ doorsteps for payment through cross cheque. “This unique service started from Karachi as a pilot project will be implemented in phases and later extended to the other cities of the country,” an official at Pakistan Post said here on Friday.

The official said consumers domestic as well as commercial, desirous of making payment through cheque at their doorsteps will handover the utility bill to the postman of their locality along with a crossed cheque by the due date.

He said the crossed cheque should be issued by the consumer in the name of the Chief/Sr Postmaster/Sub Postmasters of GPO/HPO/Sub Post Offices which function as Cash offices at tehsil headquarter and sub-tehsil headquarter level. Cheque should not be post dated, he added.

Postman on collection of the cheque will acknowledge the payment by stamping (specimen of stamp given below) and signing the bill. Cheque number, date of issue, bank and branch on which the cheque is drawn will be recorded in the space provided in the stamp.

The postman will retain the lower portion of the bill (stub) with the cheque and return the remaining part of the bill duly stamped to the consumer. He said postman would only accept the crossed cheque payable at the banks located within the cantonment/municipal limits of the city where the post office is functioning.

The official said the cheque, dishonoured for any reason along with bank intimation slip specifying reasons of dishonour will be returned/delivered to the consumer by the area postmen at their doorstep through recorded delivery and their bill will be treated as “not paid.” He said post office department would receive Rs 20 as home collection charges per bill from the consumer.

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