PUBLIC AUTHORITIES SHOULD USE INDIA POST SERVICES NOT
PRIVATE COURIER SERVICE
It is observed that several
government-departments, public-authorities and public-sector-undertakings
(PSUs) use private courier service rather than postal services.
With premium postal-services like
Speed Post now available at most post offices and destinations, it should be
made compulsory for all bodies under central and state governments for
compulsorily using only normal postal-services. Registered Post should be used
at destinations not covered by premium Speed Post service. Postal Department
should take up the matter with Department of Public Enterprises and others
concerned.
In Focus Public sector services
should be utilised by all public authorities as far as possible to encourage
public sector and to prevent the public money from going to services under
private sector.
Postal department can also provide
special privilege to Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) by introducing sponsored
postal stamps against some minimum purchase of postal stamps where such
sponsored postal stamps can carry design advertisements from these PSUs but
only after being approved by the postal department.
Such sponsored postal stamps can
have some advertisement cost per stamp like in case of inland-letter cards and
post cards. This idea will give increased revenue earning for postal
department, and an advertisement-field for PSUs.
However Speed Post tariffs will have
to be rationalized and revised to be uniform for local and non-local services
with equal tariff-rise for every additional 50 gms rise in slab-weight to
compete charges of private courier services.
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