Postal services:
- The primary function of a post office or say the postal department is to collect, process, transmit and deliver the mails.
- Postal services play a vital role in exchanging written information and communication services between people. In today’s fast world it is extremely important that people can send and receive their letters, documents, message, etc. from one place to another quickly and without any interruption.
- Apart from Indian Postal Department there are numerous private postal service providers operating in the entire world. These private operators are called courier service providers.
- There are also several aangadiyas who provide services similar to courier service agencies.
- The Indian postal department called the India Post has been providing information and communication services for more than 150 years.
Over and above basic postal services our postal department provides a variety of services like:
- Money order
- Saving schemes
- Accepting several government forms
- Postal life insurance
- Rural insurance schemes
- Mutual funds
- Facility to become agents on behalf of government of India
- Facilities paying retirement pension, etc.
The postal department has also got a license to work as a bank and hence it provides banking facilities as well. Today there are about 1,50,000 post offices in India out of which 90% are based in rural areas.