Question

Write notes.

Speed Post

Write the contact information.

Speed Post Stamp

Answer 1

1. The service of ‘Speed Post’ was started in 1986.
2. Many people take advantage of this service, to the tune of more than three crores of letters and parcels being delivered every month.
3. The postal department sends a message of successful delivery on the mobile phone of the sender. This facility has made the speed post service more reliable.
4. In addition, the postal department now offers courier services like delivery of passports, business parcels, cash-on-delivery, logistics post, and air freights.
5. Earlier, if anybody wanted to post letters or gift articles, etc. on a larger scale, the tasks like putting the letters in envelopes or packaging of the gift articles, the sender had to do them personally. Now the post office offers the packaging service at an extra charge. This has increased the business of the postal department.
6. There are one lakh and fifty-five thousand post offices, which are offering services like paying various bills, sending festive greeting cards and similar objects.