What is Post Office?
The India Post is an Indian government operated postal network. India has been splited up into 22 postal circles, each and every circle directed by a chief postmaster general. It was founded on 1 April 1774. The Post Office India is having headquarters in Delhi, India. The most astounding post office on the planet is in Hikkim, Himachal Pradesh, India at a stature of 15,500 ft (4,700 m) (postal code 172114). The Indian Post has almost 4, 66,903 workforces. In 2011, the Indian Postal Service had 1, 54,866 post offices. The Post Office of India Act 1898, departed by the assembly on 22 March 1898. The customer care number of Post Office can be contacted from Himachal Pradesh, Meerut, Jammu, Varanasi, Faridabad, Cochin, Chhattisgarh, Punjab, Indore, North Delhi, Jharkhand, Raipur, Uttarakhand, East Delhi, Ludhiana, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Vellore, Bihar, Kolkata, Surat, Allahabad, Vadodara, Hyderabad, Agra, Sangli, Amritsar, Madhya Pradesh, Bhubaneswar, Thane, Coimbatore, Orissa, Gwalior, Goa, Lucknow, Nagpur, Mumbai, Rajkot, Trichy, Trivandrum, Bhopal, Navi Mumbai, Kanpur, Karnataka, Jaipur, Ernakulam, Vijayawada, Pondicherry, Baroda, Ahmedabad, Visakhapatnam, South Delhi, New Delhi, Gorakhpur, Salem, Pune, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Delhi, Madurai, Patiala, Erode, West Delhi, Nasik, Bangalore, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Gujarat, Chennai, Maharashtra, Ghaziabad, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Gurgaon, Ranchi, Patna, Jalandhar, Goregaon, Jamshedpur, Mangalore, Aurangabad, Noida, Shillong, Mysore, Rajasthan, Udaipur India, etc.
Services offered by India Post:
India Post delivers services to the customers keeping the choice of the customers in the view. Moreover,
India Post is also the largest postal service operator in the world.
India Post also aims to give value for money to all it's clients. Under are the few of services which
India Post offers to it's customers.
Mail products:Letter:
Maximum weight allowed is 2kgs. Moreover, if the letter is in roll form then the diameter should be between 10cm to 80cm and length should be between 17cm to 100cm. If the letter is not in roll form then dimension should be 11.7cm and 60cm. Also, length should be 90cm.
Inland letter card:
The dimensions of the letter card with it's flaps when unfolded or folded should be minimum
28.2cm x 18.2cm and maximum 30cm x 21cm.
Parcel: India Post renders om-time safe and secure delivery of the parcels across India of all the items expect for the ones which are prohibited. Weight of the parcels should be as:
- An un-registered parcel should not exceed 4 kgs.
- Registered 10 kgs if parcel is for a branch post office.
- Registered 20 kgs for others.
- Length should be 1 meter and girth 1.80 metres.
Insurance: India Post also covers risks of the parcel during transmission. Below are the details:
Registered letters: Maximum up to the value of INR 600.
Registered parcels: Insured value will be within the real value of the contents of the parcel insured.
Value payable registered letters: Maximum up to the value of INR 1,00,000.
Value payable registered parcels: The parcel containing gold currency notes or coin, will be insured as per the value of the items.
For others services, the clients can visit
India Post at their official enlisted beneath:
http://www.indiapost.gov.in/VPPost.aspxCustomer care assistance at India Post:
| Location | Contact |
|---|
| Andhra Pradesh | 040-23463636 |
| Assam | 9435503177 |
| Bihar | 0612-2230082 |
| Chhattisgarh | 0771-2233400 |
| Delhi | 011-23620144 |
| Gujarat | 079-25505424 |
| Haryana | 0171-2603100 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 0177-2629000 |
| Jammu and Kashmir | 0191-2542878 |
| Jharkhand | 0651-2482345 |
| Karnataka | 080-22392523 |
| Kerala and Lakshadeep | 0471-2308300 |
| Goa, Maharshtra and Dadra & Nagar Haveli | 1800 228 030 |
| All North-Eastern States except Assam and Sikkim | 0364-2223800 |
| Orissa | 0674-2392000 |
| For Punjab and Chandigarh | 0172-2706700 |
| Rajasthan | 0141-2372020 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 0522-2622000 |
| Uttarakhand | 0135-2658396 |
| For West Bengal, Sikkim and Andaman & Nicobar Islands | 033-22120070 |