India Post Android Apps and e-Commerce Centre dedicated to Nation

Union Minister for Tele-communication and Information Technology, Sh. Ravi Shankar Prasad inaugurated India Post e-commerce Centre at Safdarjang on 11/05/2015.  Considering the rapid growth of e-commerce business in the country in the recent past, the Department of Posts, through Delhi Postal Circle has setup the e-commerce centre at Safdarjang, New Delhi -110003. 

This processing centre will handle exclusively all the e-commerce business with the state of the art technology driven facility for quick and smooth operation starting from booking till dispatch from the Centre.

The Centre is equipped with modern technology and newly introduced conveyor belt where parcels get sorted with the help of conveyor belt. As a result, the e-commerce centre is now capable of handling 30000 parcels/articles per day. The parcels are collected from the e-commerce customers, processed and dispatched within 24 hours to respective destination through quickest available flight/train, as the case may be.

The leading e-commerce customers, viz., Amazon, Paytm, Yepme, Snapdeal, etc are already availing the benefits of fast, reliable and safe processing of their e-commerce parcels at the newly established e-commerce centre at Safdarjang in New Delhi.

India Post Android Mobile App “Postinfo” is also launched by the Minister of Communications and Information Technology on the occasion. This is an android based application developed by Centre for Excellence in Postal Technology (CEPT), Mysore. The application includes features like real time tracking of accountable articles, Post Office search, Postage calculator, etc through Mobile Phone.

The Postinfo app provides the following facilities;

1)       Post office search

2)       Tracking

3)       Postage Calculator

4)       Insurance premium calculator

5)       Interest calculator

POST OFFICE SEARCH:

By entering first four character of the name of the Post office or by entering the Pin code of the office the users can get a list of matching Post offices. By clicking again on the row the user gets the details like Name of Post office, Street address (location), contact details of the Post office (where ever available) for the selected Post office. The name of the Division and contact details of the Divisional Superintendent (where ever available), details of Regional Postmaster General and the Chief Postmaster General will also displayed.

TRACKING:

The tracking facility is made available on this mobile app for the following types of mail items.

1.       Speed Post             

2.       Registered Letter               

3.       Insured Letter

4.       Value Payable Letter 

5.       Insured Value Payable Letter         

6.       Registered Packets

7.       Registered Periodicals         

8.       Registered Parcel               

9.       Insured Parcel

10      Value Payable Parcel

11.     Insured Value Payable Parcel         

12.     Business Parcel

13.     Business Parcel COD 

14.     Express Parcel                           

15.     Express Parcel COD

16.     Electronic Money Order (e-MO)

The users can view the status of the above mentioned type of articles by entering the articles number and touching the Track button. The following additional facilities are also available.

1.       Save the results for future reference

2.       Share it with others through Android native sharing apps viz. Bluetooth, WhatsApp, Facebook etc.

POSTAGE CALCULATOR:

The app will calculate the Postage (tariff) to be paid for all types of articles based on the weight entered by the user. The unique feature of the Postage Calculator is that in single query it shows the tariff chargeable for the following items.

1.       Ordinary letter        

2.       Speed post Domestic *

3.       Registered letter      

4.       Ordinary Parcel

5.       Registered Parcel     

6.       Registered book packet

7        Registered book packet containing Printed books  

8.       Ordinary Registered book packet

9.       Ordinary book packet containing Printed books    

10.     Book packet containing periodicals

11.     Book packet containing Registered News papers

12.     *Domestic Speed Post Tariff depends on distance between place of origin and destination.

13.     Based on tariff there are 5 slabs of tariff viz. local, up to 200 KM, 201 to 1000 KM, and 1001 to 2000KM and above 2000KM. The calculator shows the tariff for all categories)

PREMIUM CALCULATOR

The Department is offering various types of Life Insurance Policies through Postal Life Insurance and Rural Postal Life Insurance. The users can check the premium payable for all the eligible types of Postal /Rural Postal Life insurance Policies on the basis of the input entered.

INTEREST CALCULATOR

Post office is offering different types of Small Savings Schemes as mentioned below:

•        Sukanya Samriddhi yojaana

•        Recurring Deposit

•        Time Deposit (1 year, 2 year, 3 year and 5 year)

•        Monthly Income Scheme

•        Senior Citizen Savings Scheme      

•        National Savings Certificate

•        Kisan Vikas Patra

The calculator shows the interest rate for each savings scheme by entering the amount.

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