Indian Post Goes Mobile; Now Receive SMS on Parcel Delivery Status
Indian postal service will start notifying about status of mails, parcels, money orders from September.
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Come September and customers will receive messages on their mobile phones from India Post informing them about status of mails, parcels, money orders and other deliveries.
Besides, the postal department has also decided to start tracking their postmen with help of GPS enabled handheld devices by October.
This will help locate the postmen visiting the addresses given to them to deliver parcels and registered posts in Delhi under a pilot project.
India Post Chief Postmaster General for Delhi, Vasumitra, said the Department of Posts (DoP) is procuring 1.3 lakh GPS enabled handheld devices for rural areas. This would facilitate almost all kind of services delivered through post offices like issuing of receipt for mail or parcel bookings, acknowledge of deliveries, delivery of money orders.
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