ALLAHABAD: While postal department is pushing for modernisation of its services, its revenue has also increased. Allahabad postal region earned revenue of more than one billion rupees in the last financial year. Other than transmission of letters and selling postage stamps, the department also provides services like banking, insurance and other financial services.

Read more: New services push postal dept revenue – The Times of India.

Lakhs of letters, mostly belonging to defence personnel and their families, are lying undelivered in more than 15 bags and five big boxes at a post office (PO) in the city for the past six months.

The post office is located inside the boundary of 9BRD Air Force Area in Vimannagar.

Ex-Navy officer, social worker and RTI activist Binod Kumar Ojha, who visited the post office recently, said, “Around 80% of these ‘unattended’ letters belong to the defence people and 20% to civilians, which is a serious issue. We are all aware that all government documents come by normal post.”

Read more: This Post Office fails to deliver lakhs of letters – Pune – DNA.

The high court on Monday came to the rescue of a senior citizen who wanted a post office to be established near his house in Vasanth Nagar.

The court has warned that suo motu contempt proceedings would be initiated against the postal department if it failed to establish a post office in the area within four months.

A public interest litigation was filed by Satinderpal Chopra, a senior citizen from Vasanth Nagar, who had stated that people of the area had been put to great hardship after the only post office there had been closed down about one and half years ago. The post office was closed down since it was located on a private property at 7th cross 11th Main in Vasanth Nagar. Chopra pleaded that in spite of many respresentations to the postmaster general urging him to open a new post office on Millers Road, the needful had not been done.

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Mumbai, April 12:

The city’s first Mahila Dak Ghar, a post office entirely operated by women staff, was inaugurated here today. Located at New Customs House in South Mumbai, the post office was inaugurated by Post Secretary and Postal Services Board Chairperson P Gopinath.

Read more: Mumbai gets first women post office – Business Line.

All post offices across India will offer online banking services to customers by May next year, according to Killi Kruparani, Minister of State for Communication and Information Technology of India.

India Post offers a wide range of financial services such as savings accounts, insurance and provident funds. The network of 155,000 post offices across the country provides critical services in rural areas that lack banking infrastructure.

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KOLKATA, 27 JAN: The Centre has sanctioned Rs 4,700 crores for the computerisation and modernisation of post offices in India.

"Around Rs 1,500 crores of this will be spent for the installation of computer hardware system in rural post offices in the country," Centre minister of state for Communication and IT, Dr (Mrs) K Killi said after inaugurating an Automated Mail Processing (AMP) centre in Kolkata today.

“Every post office in our country will provide online services to the citizens in both rural and urban areas by May 2014. It will be possible for people to check the status of their mail and parcel, and will be able to enquire whether the mail and parcel had been delivered. 1,000 ATMs will be installed in the main post offices by the end of the next one and half year,” Dr Killi said.

Read more: Govt to pump in money to energise postal services in the country.

Pre-addressed postcards for women to send complaints

The city police will place pre-addressed postcards and envelopes at public places for women to mail their complaints and suggestions to them.

The Technopark campus, railway stations, bus terminals, bank counters, restaurants, textile shops, convenience stores, ATM kiosks, medical stores, and colleges will soon have containers holding the pre-stamped post cards and complaint boxes to drop them.

Read more: The Hindu : Cities / Thiruvananthapuram : Police come up with a ‘postal beat’.

ALLAHABAD: On the occasion of Maha Kumbh, Postal department gives you an opportunity to get your picture printed on a postage stamp along with your zodiac sign, said director, Postal Services, Allahabad region. He added that during the philatelic exhibition to be held on January 13 and 14 this year at Art gallery of North Central Zone Cultural Centre (NCZCC), ‘My Stamp’ facility will be launched in Allahabad for the first time. Any living person may get photo printed on postage stamps along with one’s zodiac sign.

Read more: Put your pic on postal stamps – The Times of India.

KOCHI: Hundreds of parcels from abroad have not been cleared by the state’s only foreign post office, located in the city, for over a month.The postal department has blamed the shortage of staff and increase in the number of parcels from Gulf countries for the fiasco.

Read more: Foreign parcels stuck in post office for a month – The Times of India.

HYDERABAD: After failing to deliver mail, including a registered parcel, addressed to President Pranab Mukherjee, Bolarum post office staff on Tuesday redirected it to Rashtrapti Bhavan in New Delhi.

At 8 am, senior India Post officials landed at R P Nilayam in Bolarum to deliver the mail to the VVIP guest. However, the President’s security personnel initially stopped and denied them entry into the premises. Though they showed their identity cards and even tried to convince security personnel that they had to deliver letters to the President, their efforts were proved futile.

Read more: President mail redirected to Delhi – The Times of India.