To compete with the private courier companies, India Post launched two new parcel services under which it will provide free pick up for orders above Rs.7,500 and cash-on-delivery for consignment value of up to Rs.50,000. India Post aims to generate additional revenue of Rs.100 crore in a year, through the new service.<\/p>\n
Two new services are “Express Parcel<\/em><\/strong>” which is an air mail service and the other “Business Parcel<\/em><\/strong>” which will be delivered using surface transport.\u00a0 Parcels booked under both the services will be delivered at most in 72 hours.<\/p>\n \u201cMany e-commerce companies have shown interest to use parcel services of India Post. They have been demanding for more value addition to existing parcel service. Hence, we are launching Express Parcel and Business Parcel service.\u201d Department of Post (DoP) Secretary P. Gopinath said while launching the two services.<\/p>\n Charges for Express Parcels start from Rs30 for local service to Rs80 for delivery in the other state, for items weighing up to Rs.500 gram. For additional 500gram up to 5KG, India Post will charge Rs8 to Rs20 and Rs.10 to Rs.22 for every additional 500 gm thereafter. Meanwhile, for business parcels, customers will have to pay in the range of Rs.45 to Rs.115 for items weighing up to 2kg, Rs.12 to Rs.30 for additional 1 kg up to 5 kg and Rs.14 to Rs.32 thereafter for every 1 kg.<\/p>\n Express parcels will be initially available between 20 identified cities \u2014Thiruvananthapuram, Agra, Bangalore, Bhubaneshwar, Chennai, Delhi NCR, Patna, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Jammu, Kolkata, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Mumbai, Pune, Parwanoo, Shillong and Surat.\u00a0 Business Parcels will have a nationwide coverage.<\/p>\n These services are not just for e-commerce companies. Anyone can avail these service as long as there is a minimum business of Rs.7,500 from that order. There will be free pick up facility for parcels and pick-up services will be initially available for customers who enter into agreement with India Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To compete with the private courier companies, India Post launched two new parcel services under which it will provide free pick up for orders above Rs.7,500 and cash-on-delivery for consignment value of up to Rs.50,000. India Post aims to generate additional revenue of Rs.100 crore in a year, through the new service. Two new services […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":15146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[192],"class_list":["post-15115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}