Indian postman to don a new look
(PTI)
The department of posts has decided to change the
colour of uniform worn by postmen and Group D staff in
the field units from khaki to blue. The change will
take effect from October 1, 2004.
The department, which is in its 150th year, has issued
orders to this effect, an official statement said on
Friday, September 3, 2004.
The new attire for male employees will be dark blue
trousers and light blue full sleeves shirt. Female
employees will have light blue colour sarees with dark
blue border. The ladies will also have the option of
wearing a blue kameez, dark blue salwar and dupatta.
The departmental logo will also be affixed on the
uniform.
This meets a long-standing demand of the postmen and
is aimed at giving them a 'smart and corporate' look.
However, the old uniforms will also continue to be
worn by the staff till the stocks get exhausted.
Postmen are enthusiastic about their new attire. Some
of them said in their khaki dress, they are mistaken
for constables. Secondly, the texture of the material
was not suitable for field duty during the summer.
Link article of interest:
November 12, 2001
Faster, Safer Snail-Mail in India
By SARITHA RAI/The New York Times
Even as Americans, newly wary of paper mail, are
embracing e-mail with greater gusto, people in places
like India are turning e-mail into paper.
India's Department of Posts offers a service called
e-Post in some Indian cities and towns, enabling
customers to hand a postal worker a message meant for
a snail-mail address. The postal worker types the
message into a computer and e-mails it to the post
office nearest the intended recipient, where the
message is printed out, placed in a sealed envelope
and delivered by a carrier.
Since its introduction three months ago, the service,
which costs 10 rupees (about 20 cents) a message, has
become popular among the people of far-flung towns
like Kolhapur in the western state of Maharashtra or
Panaji in the coastal state of Goa, where home
computers and Internet access are not common.
The Department of Posts also offers Hybrid Mail, which
works much the same way, except that messages are
transmitted between post offices through a satellite
network and then printed out and hand-delivered.
India's postal service operates 154,000 post offices,
which deliver 53 million pieces of mail a day. Even as
it tries to shake off the reputation of a lethargic
civil service, commercial competition is on the way.
A Web company, hotmailindia (www.hotmailindia.com),
says on its Web site that starting this week it will
begin a service in India that will convert e-mail to
printouts for hand delivery on the same day at the
"speed of a telegram."
Hotmailindia's service would be a paid version of free
services offered by Web sites like Bharatmail
(www.bharatmail.com) and HotDak (www.hotdak.com),
which are popular with Indians who live abroad and
want to send messages to friends and family back home.
These services print out the sender's e-mail messages
and put them into the domestic postal system � a
faster and less expensive alternative to foreign mail.
(Seeking advertising revenue to support the services,
some free-delivery Web sites are struggling to stay in
business.)
Vivek Singh, 23, a student in the northern Indian city
of Chandigarh who does not have a computer, uses
HotDak as a way for people in the United States to
reach him. "E-mails from my aunt in San Jose and my
friends in Wisconsin and Milwaukee reach me this way,"
he said, "and I can open these letters without
dreading anthrax."
-- Forwarded by G. Almeidaji, www.goa-world.com --
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