C. Business hours

 

            BUSINESS HOURS

                The public business hours are fixed with regard to local convenience and the arrival and departure timings of mails.

                The business hours in the principal post offices are generally as indicated below s

	ON WEEK DAYS	ON SATURDAY
Reference and enquiries, sale of postage stamps and stationery	Entire working hours	Entire working hours
Booking of mails	Six to seven hours	Five hours ( stopping at 3 pm)
POSB transactions, money orders and sale of IPOs	Five hours	Three hours (stopping at 1 pm)

 

Post offices in charge of extra departmental agents are kept open for a maximum period of 5 hours.

BUSINESS DONE ON SUNDAYS AND PO HOLIDAYS

ð  Except the Night Post Offices all post offices and  Mobile Post Offices are generally closed on Sundays and PO Holidays.  There is no clearance of street letter boxes.

ð  Facilities are provided for the posting of letters on which the prescribed late fee is paid during certain specific hours in the letter boxes at RMS offices and at selected offices.

ð  Machine franked articles should not be posted either in the post office letter box or the mail van letter box.

ð  Registered newspapers and packets of registered news papers are accepted on Sundays and PO holidays without payment of any late fee in Press Sorting Offices (R.M.S. offices and at Night Post Offices).

ð Generally, all RMS offices stamps and postal stationary and grant certificates of posting and book registered articles on payment of usual late fee during specified hours on Sundays and PO holidays.

POST OFFICE HOLIDAYS

                The following holidays are observed as post office holidays

01. Republic day                                                                               02. Mahavir Jayanti

03.  Good Friday                                                                               04. Buddha Purnima

05. Idu'l Fitr                                                                                         06. Idul'l Zuha

07. Independence Day                                                                      08. Muharram

09. Mahatma Gandhi's Birthday                                                     10. Dussehra (vijaya dushami)

11. Prophet Mohammad's Birthday (Id-E-Milad)                               12.Diwali (Deepavali)

13. Guru Nanak's Birthday                                                                14. Christmas Day

 

In addition post office observe post office holidays on 3 other days which vary from circle to circle.

 

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