It is observed that several government-departments, public-authorities and public-sector-undertakings (PSUs) use private courier service rather than postal services.
With premium postal-services like Speed Post now available at most
post offices and destinations, it should be made compulsory for all
bodies under central and state governments for compulsorily using only
normal postal-services. Registered Post should be used at destinations
not covered by premium Speed Post service. Postal Department should take
up the matter with Department of Public Enterprises and others
concerned.
In Focus Public sector services should be utilised by all public
authorities as far as possible to encourage public sector and to prevent
the public money from going to services under private sector.
Postal department can also provide special privilege to Public Sector
Undertakings (PSUs) by introducing sponsored postal stamps against some
minimum purchase of postal stamps where such sponsored postal stamps
can carry design advertisements from these PSUs but only after being
approved by the postal department.
Such sponsored postal stamps can have some advertisement cost per
stamp like in case of inland-letter cards and post cards. This idea will
give increased revenue earning for postal department, and an
advertisement-field for PSUs.
However Speed Post tariffs will have to be rationalized and revised
to be uniform for local and non-local services with equal tariff-rise
for every additional 50 gms rise in slab-weight to compete charges of
private courier services.
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