Title Short Notes on Delivery Of Mails.pdf ✅

 Delivery Of Mails: - MCQs for PA, Postman, IPO, PS Gr B Exam. Today you will see an extensive guide with MCQs, Quizzes on Chapter Delivery Of Mails Po Guide Part I Questions and answers So, A Soft copy of PO Guide part 1 is provided from the India Post Website for going through initially. These days many in-depth questions are being asked in the Departmental Exam. Lets see clause wise details notes Delivery Of Mails  The addressee of a registered article can take delivery or request for the detention for 1 week.  For pardanashin woman, the signature should be attested by a person known to postman. If the witness is not known to the postman, that person should be identified by another person known to the postman, who should also sign. The article will be delivered to the witness.  If any registered article is received in damaged condition, a registered notice is issued to the addressee to take delivery at the office within 7 days (for inland) and 15 days for foreign articles.  Parcels weighing upto 10 kg will be sent only once for delivery. Parcels weighing more than 10 kg will be delivered at the post office. A notice will be issued to the addressee.  If any person refuses to pay the amount due to the post office, all the articles except on IGS will not be delivered.  Insured articles of value greater than Rs. 500 will be delivered at post offices.  No unpaid amount will be recovered from forces letter (special ILC)and green envelopes(special envelopes) which are posted by defence service personnel h. Delivery Of Mails
35. Definition. – The delivery of a postal article at the house or office of the addressee or to addressee or his servant or agent or other person considered to be authorized to receive the article according to the usual manner of delivering postal articles to the addressee is deemed to be delivered to the addressee under the Post Office Act. 36. Delivery of registered articles – No registered articles of any kind will be delivered to the addressee unless and until he or his agent authorized in writing has signed a receipt for it, in the prescribed form which will be presented to him for signature by the postman who delivers the registered article. 37. Refusal of registered articles presented for delivery – If the addressee, while refusing to take delivery on presentation of the registered article to him, makes an application in writing to the post office of delivery for the detention of the article or if the addressee is not found at the address given on the article, the article shall be detained in the post office for a period not exceeding 7 days from the date of its presentation to the addressee or from the date it is last sent out for delivery as the case may be. If the addressee fails to take delivery of the article from the post office within the said period of seven days, the article will be returned to the office of posting for delivery to the sender. The remark ‘Refused’ will be recorded on the article if the addressee fails to take delivery after requesting for detention. NOTE - The expression ‘office of posting’ means the delivery post office which serves the address of the sender. 38. Special procedure for delivering registered articles to firms etc. – Registered articles for delivery to Firms, etc., which normally receive a large number of registered articles, are entered in a special list in duplicate which is presented along with the articles acknowledgement forms etc., to the addressee who will be required to sign the upper copy in token of receipt of the lower copy of the list along with all the articles and return the signed acknowledgements. No individual receipts will be prepared for the articles entered in the special list. Articles on which any charges are to be recovered will not be entered in the special list. 39. Delivery of registered articles addressed to pardanashin women - When the addressee of a registered or an insured article is a pardanashin woman who has not an agent appointed in writing to take delivery of such article on her behalf her signature (or mark, if she is illiterate) will have to be attested by a respectable witness (ordinarily a relative known as such to the postman), and the article will be delivered to the witness. When the witness is not personally known to the postman, he or she must before taking delivery of the article, be identified and the person who identifies him (or her) will be required to sign the receipt and acknowledgement as a witness to the delivery of the article. 40. Delivery of damaged registered article of the letter and parcel mail. – When a registered articles of the letter mail or a parcel is received in the office of delivery in a damaged condition, a notice will be sent by the postmaster of that office to the addressee requesting him to attend the post office within seven days in the case of inland articles and fifteen days in the case of foreign article to take delivery of it either personally or through an agent. This notice will have to be produced at the Post Office before delivery is effected and if presented by an agent his name should be entered on the form before it leaves the addressee’s custody. 41. Delivery of parcels and period of their detention at the office of delivery – (1) A parcel which does not exceed 10 Kg. in weight (except Value-payable parcel and those addressed to Poste Restante) will be issued for delivery only once and if it cannot be delivered through any cause on first presentation by the postman it will be brought back to the post office and will not be
issued again for delivery. A notice of arrival of the parcel will, however, be issued at the next delivery through the postman to the addressee for taking delivery of the parcel either personally or by an agent or messenger authorized for the purpose. A parcel weighing above 10 kilograms in weight will be delivered only at the post office window. A similar notice will be issued to the addressees in such a case also. Should the addressee or his authorized agent fail to take delivery of the parcel at the post office within seven days from the date of presentation of the notice, the parcel will, on the expiry of that period, be treated as “Unclaimed” and disposed of according to the rules of the Department. 42. Delivery of insured articles. – An article insured for any sum not exceeding Rs. 500will be delivered in the ordinary manner. An article insured for more than Rs. 500 will be delivered only at the Post Office window, intimation of arrival being sent by the post office to the addressee. The addressee of an insured article or his agent, authorized in writing, must sign in ink both the receipt and acknowledgement relating thereto unless the outward appearance of the cover gives rise to suspicion of tampering. In such cases he should arrange to open the article at the post office, in the presence of the postmaster, and to have its contents entered in an inventory which will be prepared in duplicate and must be signed by the addressee. One copy of the signed inventory will be forwarded by the post office to the sender with unsigned acknowledgement attached to it. In case, the addressee or his agent is not known to the staff of the post office from which the insured article is to be delivered, the identification of the addressee or his age nt by a person known to the post office staff or production of evidence which will establish his identity to the satisfaction of the Postmaster will be necessary if so required by the delivering post office official. NOTE 1 : When an insured article issued for delivery is not accepted by the addressee it will not be sent out a second time; an intimation of its arrival will be made over to him and the article will be delivered at the post office on presentation of the intimation with the receipt and acknowledgement duly signed. If the addressee of an insured article after an intimation of its arrival has been delivered, omits to take delivery of the article within the time specified in the intimation it will be returned to the sender as refused. NOTE 2 : When the receipt and acknowledgement duly signed together with the intimation are presented by the addressee or his agent to the Post Office, he must place his signature on the intimation in the presenceof the delivery assistant of the post office and surrender the intimation to the post office if delivery is taken. 43. Delivery of V.P. articles. – (1) If the amount to be recovered on a value payable articleexceeds Rs. 100 an intimation of its arrival will be sent by the office of destination to the addressee. Such article will be delivered at the post office on payment of the amount entered in the form or receipt on the reverse of the intimation in cash and on presentation at the post office of the intimation with the receipt on the reverse duly signed. (2) If the amount to be recovered on a value-payable article does not exceed Rs. 100, the article will be delivered to the addressee or his agent authorized in writing by the postman at the addressee’s residence on payment of the amount recoverable and on the addressee or his agent authorized in writing signing the receipt on the reverse of the intimation presented with the article. (3) If the amount to be recovered on a value-payable article exceeds Rs.25 and the delivery is to be made through a village postman or an extra-departmental delivery agent then the article is delivered at the post office only in the manner prescribed in sub-clause (1). (4) If the amount to be recovered on a value-payable article be not below Rs. 20 and the article is taken delivery of at the counter of the post office, the amount may be paid either in cash or by cheque under the conditions indicated in clause 94(a).