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New 'Speed Post Gold' service

   New Delhi: The Department of Post is introducing a new 'Speed Post Gold' service from today to ensure delivery of articles before lunch on the next working day. In the beginning, Delhi and Mumbai post offices will be the ones with this facility.' The tariff plan for the service will vary from Rs 10 to RS 100 depending upon the weight of the article. The Department of Posts comes under the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. For providing postal services, the whole country has been divided into 22 postal circles.

   Each Circle is co-terminus with a State except for Gujarat Circle ( which also administers the Union Territories (UT) of Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli), Kerala Circle (which includes the UT of Lakshdweep), Maharashtra Circle (which has within its jurisdiction the State of Goa), North East Circle (which comprises six North Eastern States -Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura), Punjab Circle (which has within its administrative jurisdiction , the UT of Chandigarh ), and Tamilnadu Circle ( which also administers the UT of Pondicherry ). Each Circle is further divided into Regions comprising field units, called Divisions (Postal / RMS Divisions). In the Circles and Regions there are other functional units like Circle Stamp Depots, Postal Stores Depots and Mail Motor Service etc. Besides these 22 Circles, there is another Circle, called Base Circle, to cater for the postal communication needs of the Armed Forces. The officer cadre of the Army Postal Service comprises officers on deputation from the Civil Posts. Seventy five percent of the other ranks of the Army Postal Service are also drawn from the Department of Posts and the remaining personnel are recruited by the Army.
-Feb 1, 2006

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