India Post will now send SMSes on delivery status

India Post customers will receive SMSes on their mobile phones informing them about status of mails, parcels, money orders and other deliveries from this September.

The department would also track its postmen with GPS enabled handheld devices by this October. This would help locate the postmen visiting the addresses given to them to deliver parcels and registered posts in Delhi.

"From September, we will send SMS to people informing them about arrival of parcel at nearest centre and time period when it will be delivered," India Post Chief Postmaster General for Delhi, Vasumitra, told reporters.

According to him the Department of Posts (DoP) is procuring 1.3 lakh GPS enabled handheld devices for rural areas which will facilitate almost all kind of services delivered through post offices like issuing of receipt for mail or parcel bookings, acknowledge of deliveries, delivery of money orders.

"There is a provision of 15,000 handheld devices separately for major cities. We are in process of procuring 1,000 additional devices for pilot project in Delhi which will show us time when postmen visited various addresses. It should be in place within three months," Vasumitra said.

The DoP has plans to provide 1,30,000 rural post offices with handheld devices.

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