India Post to play an important role in online shopping now
Keeping in view the
enormous growth of the e-commerce sector in the country in recent years, India
Post has recently joined hands with the e-retail giants Flipkart,
Snapdeal, Amazon. India Postal Department will soon be delivering products of
these online companies in every corner of the nation in the near future.
The prospects of collaboration were discussed in a press
conference held on Saturday on the occasion of 'mail diwas' during 'National
Postal Week'. The machine installed on latest 'Automated Mail Processor Center'
was also displayed.
John Samuel, Member of the Postal Service Board informed that
the Indian Post will soon convert 1.55 lakh post offices of the country to the
high-tec 'Parcel hubs' and an investment of Rs 4.90 crore is being
pitched for this plan.
“India Post will play a major role in e-commerce industry and
would be using latest machines. It would be transforming according to the needs
of the world,” he further added.
Chief Post Master General Vashumitra stressed that automated
mail processing centre built at IGI airport, is important for the modernisation
of India Post. He also shared that letter sorting machine, mixed mail sorter
machines installed in the centre work quickly. The letters and parcels are
sorted out as per the different states and different areas (as per Pincodes).
33,000 letters per hour can be sorted by this machine. He urged
the customers as well to write the addresses and pincodes on the letters and
parcels correctly , avoid using coloured envelopes, so that there may be no
problems in sorting of the letters and parcels.
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