More than 400 e-commerce companies are leveraging the extensive reach of the Department of Posts (DoP) in an effort to deliver their consignments at every nook and corner of the country.
- The Department has tied up with more than 400 e-commerce agencies, including Flipkart, Amazon, YepMe, Snapdeal and the like for delivering e-commerce pre-paid as well as cash-on-delivery (COD) orders.
- DoP has a network of some 1.55 lakh post offices, of which 1.3 lakh are in rural areas.
- Of all, Amazon is the biggest partner in terms of business with India Posts.
- As per the note, DoP received Rs 1,150 crore from parcels under the COD category, which is expected to cross the Rs 1,500-crore mark by the end of the current fiscal.
- DoP is delivering 40,000 e-commerce parcels per day and the average value of parcels handled by India Post is Rs 5,000 for urban areas and Rs 3,000 for rural areas
About Indian Posts
- The Department of Posts, trading as India Post, is a government-operated postal system in India; it is generally referred to within India as “the post office”.
- As of 31 March 2011, the Indian Postal Service had 154,866 post offices, of which 139,040 (89.78 percent) were in rural areas and 15,826 (10.22 percent) in urban areas.
- On average, a post office serves an area of 21.23 square kilometres (8.20 sq mi) and a population of 7,114; it is the most widely distributed postal system in the world.
- The postal service is under the Department of Posts, which is part of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of the Government of India.
- The apex body of the department is the Postal Service Board, consisting of a chair and six members.
- The six board members govern personnel, operations, technology, postal life insurance, human-resource development (HRD) and planning. The joint secretary and financial adviser is also a permanent invitee.
