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Inputs for Leveraging Post Office Network with a Task Force

Start Date :

Jan 01, 2015

Last Date :

Dec 01, 2014

04:15 AM IST (GMT +5.30 Hrs)

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For delivering various Citizen centric services and furthering the reach of Financial Services including Insurance, the Government of India has set up a Task Force to examine and ...

For delivering various Citizen centric services and furthering the reach of Financial Services including Insurance, the Government of India has set up a Task Force to examine and recommend efficient utilisation and upgradation of the Post Office Network, enabled with Digital/Internet Connectivity to rural Offices and outpost areas enabling reach of different services in rural areas. This Network is also being viewed as a distribution channel to retail various schemes and services of Central Government, State Government and Private Sector Players.

Through this discussion the Department of Posts (Ministry of Communications & Information Technology) seeks suggestions on the following:

•    To provide efficient postal network and points of presence [particularly in rural areas and small towns] to Central Government Ministries / Departments, State Governments [including Local Self Government] and private sector players for delivering various citizen-centric services, scheme, products to the people.
•    To further the role of Post Offices in Financial inclusion, including Insurance products
•    The infrastructure requirements of the Post Offices and the Postal Network
•    To make the Post Offices financially viable

Last date for sending your suggestions is 30th November, 2014.

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abdul mannaf barbhuiya 11 years 9 months ago

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Deepak Prasad 11 years 9 months ago

Schools could be encouraged to conduct post office visits for children to understand how the system works. This would induce an interest in them to use the system.

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Deepak Prasad 11 years 9 months ago

Could design a mobile application similar to email applications, where one can manage his posts, post office RD accounts etc. It would be nice if the person using online facility to send a post could choose the stamp to be used on the hard copy.

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sunit nair 11 years 9 months ago

last month i went to a post office to send a registered letter.they had server problem.redirected to another one where i came to know that the problem is since one week.i sent the registered letter the same day.it reached its destination after 14 days. even for speed post there is no guarantee of reaching the destination on time. first and foremost prompt services.

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Deepak Prasad 11 years 9 months ago

Using the information from the adhar card. The recipient can be informed that a letter has arrived through SMS or email alert system and he can be given option to alter the delivery address for convenience.

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Deepak Prasad 11 years 9 months ago

If a person writes a letter, scans it and sends it through the website of post office. The printout can be delivered to the recipient with the senders own hand writing.

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Deepak Prasad 11 years 9 months ago

Timed delivery can also be introduced. In this busy world , if one could time the delivery of a post card on a specific date it would be really helpful. There are lots of emails options for the same , but nothing feels as good as a real post card.

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Deepak Prasad 11 years 9 months ago

Post office can set up websites where people who in their busy life would like to send post cards or letters but doesn't have time for same, can write the letter online and pay online. The post office would send it to desired address as good old post card. This can also reduce the mail transportation, as a post card or letter for chennai can be printed in Chennai itself, irrespective of where the sender is from.

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Ankit Srivastava 11 years 9 months ago

to improve the importance of post offices once again needs to bond this with nationality.for example there should be post cards worth rupees 10,20,50,100,500 etc etc those who is intrested to donate has to pay that some to the post office and they will dispatch that card with his/her name to PMO india with a message written by them on it .And the post office will deposit the amt to the PMO account.nxt thing if sum one wants to send greetings to our soldiers they can get free post cards from PO.

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ABHISHEK PRAHLADKA 11 years 9 months ago

Financial instruments lack adequate advertisements and thus they fail to compete with products offered by banks or any other financial institutions. Also the products offered by post offices are very old & they lack flexibility to changing environment which can be checked in order to improve performance. More professionals should be hired for financial services offered by post office so that regular monitoring is done for the performance of various schemes.

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