This presentation provides an overview of the Indian postal service (India Post). It discusses the history and establishment of India Post in 1764. Key points include that India Post has over 154,882 post offices across the country, primarily in rural areas, and aims to provide reliable mail, parcel, banking, and insurance services. The presentation outlines various India Post products and services like Speed Post, Express Parcel, Greeting Post, and banking schemes. It also briefly discusses the history of postage stamps in independent India.

1. Presented By:-
Ravi Sonkar
PRESENTATION ON INDIAN
POSTAL SERVICES

2. INDIA POST

3. INTRODUCTION
The first post office in India was
established by British East India company
in Bombay in 1764.
 Headquarter is situated in New Delhi.
No. of employees are 520191.

4. Vision and Mission
Vision.
 India Post's products and services will be the
customer's first choice.
 Mission.
 To sustain its position as the largest postal
network in the world touching the lives of every
citizen in the country.
 To provide mail parcel, money transfer, banking,
insurance and retail services with speed and
reliability.

5. Cont…
To provide services to the customers on
value-for-money basis.
To continue to deliver social security
services and to enable last mile
connectivity as a Government of India
platform.

6. About Post Office
For more than 150 years, (DoP) has been
the backbone of the country’s.
communication and has played a crucial
role in the country’s socio-economic
development.

7. Cont…..
 It touches the lives of Indian citizens in
many ways: delivering mails, accepting
deposits under Small Savings Schemes,
providing life insurance cover under (PLI)
and (RPLI) and providing retail services
like bill collection, sale of forms, etc.

8. Cont….
Key people Kavery Benerjee, Director
General and Secretary.
Slogan
Dak Seva Jan Seva

9. Cont…
On an average, a Post Office serves an area
of 21.22 Sq. Km and a population of 8221
people
India has largest number of post office in the
world.
India has the highest post office in the world
in Sikkim at a height of 15,500 feet (postal
code – 172114).

10. Structure At Head Post Office

11. History
The British Raj was instituted in 1858,
when the rule of the East India Company
was transferred to the Crown.
By 1861, there were 889 post offices
handling nearly 43 million letters and over
4.5 million newspapers annually.

12. Cont…
The first superintendent of the post office was
appointed in 1870 and based in Allahabad.
In 1876, British India became the first non-
founding member of the General Postal
Union.
The British Raj to expand and regulate Posts
and Telegraphs service.

13. Cont…
The Government Savings Bank Act 1873
passed by the legislature 28 January
1873, was enacted in 1881.
On 1 April 1882, Post Office Savings
Banks opened throughout India.

14. Cont…
In Madras Presidency, it was limited; in the
Bengal Presidency, no POSBs were
established in Calcutta or Howrah.
Postal life insurance began on 1 February
1884 .
the Posts & Telegraphs Department as
Government of India dispatch No. 299 dated
18 October 1882 to the Secretary of State.

15. Cont…
The Indian Wireless Telegraphy Act 1933
(17 of 1933).
The world's first official airmail flight took
place in India on 18 February 1911, a
journey of 18 kilometers (11 mi) lasting 27
minutes.
There are (approximately 6,000 letters and
cards) across the Ganges from Allahabad
to Naini.

16. Cont…
The Posts and Telegraphs Departments
merged in 1914, dividing on 1 January
1985.

17. Service
Greeting Post
Media Post
Express Parcel
Business Post
Speed Post

18. Speed Post
Speed Post ...We deliver Excellence.
TRACK SPEED POST ITEM.
Speed Post, providing time-bound and
express delivery of letters.
The parcels weight up to 35 kg between
specified stations in India.

19. Tariff of Speed Post

20. Cont…
Speed Post delivers 'Value for money' to
everyone everywhere, delivering Speed
Post up to 50 grams @ INR 35 across the
country and local Speed Post up to 50
grams @ INR 15, excluding applicable
Service Tax.

21. Business Post
Business Post services will make your
task easy and convenient.
Business Post demonstrates our
responsiveness to market demands in
providing value additions to mail services,
with the best possible delivery at the
lowest possible price.

22. Express Parcel
Customised: Express Parcel service will
be available to both retail as well as
business (corporate) customers.
Weight: Minimum is 0.5 Kg Maximum is
35 Kg.

23. Cont…
Fast & secure: Express Parcel is an air
express parcel product providing time
bound delivery of parcels.
These parcels will be transmitted through
air or any other fastest mean available.

24. Tariff of Express Parcel

25. Media Post
Media Post offers an unique media
concept to help the Indian corporate and
the Government organizations.
, cost-effective and
personalized , it is
over packed .

26. Cont…
 Absolutely no other media can match
the sheer expanse of India Post in
terms of volume and reach.
 Media Post - an innovative & effective
vehicle for Brand and Marketing.

27. Greeting Post
Innovative Product
 Greeting Post ,a new range of delightful
greeting cards, brought to you by India
Post.
 These cards come ready with pre-paid
postage envelopes.
 a unique concept for the first time in India.

28. Cont…
The fascinating, postage stamps are an exact
replica of the cards inside.
Advantage Greeting Post.
And it’s not only convenience that these cards
offer, but a lot more.
Through Greeting Post you can express
yourself perfectly on every occasion, festival or
event.

29. Schemes

30. Cont…

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33. Post Office Network
India has the largest Postal Network in the
world with over 1, 54,882 Post Offices (as
on 31.03.2014) of which 1, 39,182
(89.86%) are in the rural areas.
 At the time of independence, there were
23,344 Post Offices, which were primarily
in urban areas.

34. Postage Stamps
The first stamp of independent India
released on 21 Nov 1947.
Meant for foreign
correspondence.

35. Cont…
• The second stamp
depicts the Asokan
lions capital ,the
National Emblem of
India and for
domestic use.

36. Cont…
The third stamp, showing a Douglas DC-4
aircraft, was meant for foreign airmail.
The Air India
International service
was start on 1948.

37. Cont…
Mahatma Gandhi series (four values)-
1.5As, 3.5 As, 12As, 10 Rs.
Issued on the first anniversary
 of Independence.

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40. Weakness
No advertises.
Not provide loan to consumers.
Unchanged working culture.
Lower rate of interest on deposits.

41. Conclusion
The Indian postal system needs
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