India Post Updates

[amish]

Finally some movement - now its showing parcel reached Mumbai!

 

[amish]

Received 2nd parcel yesterday but on online its still showing as "reached Mumbai" since a day before!

Yesterday they should atleast have shown "Out for delivery"

 

[Sushubh]

India Post opens counters in Gurgaon and Faridabad for eBay India sellers | ET Retail

 

[Deleted member 13033]

All my recent under Rs 500 unders came via India post, the guy comes on cycle lol I have been scared couple of times as bunch of these things were delicate glass items etc. i guess still will prefer guys on bikes anyday, delivery usually come faster via courier. India post takes about 5 - 7 days for non local items.

 

[Sushubh]

Hire a postal locker to get online shopping goods delivered in Gurgaon

The Gurgaon division of the postal department has launched a first-of-its-kind postal locker service at the Udyog Vihar postal campus. The lockers can be hired at fee of `750 per year and used to store parcels, registered letters, gifts and goods purchased online.
The service will particularly benefit the working population, who are mostly unavailable at home during the day to take delivery of these items.
The service is being launched for the first time in the country on a pilot basis. The difference between the numbered post-office box and postal lockers is that the post boxes can be used only by large companies and government organisations. The 100 postal lockers that are being offered by the postal department would be available to individuals as well.
Postmaster general, Gurgaon circle, Umesh Verma said only post cards and registered letters could be stored in numbered post boxes.
“But, the postal lockers can store parcels, gifts, letters, cards and everything sent through post . Only the passport service does not come in the ambit of this scheme. We have launched a pilot scheme for six months and on the very first day, there were nine applications,” Verma said.
Subscribers who rent a postal locker, will receive an SMS and a call from the postal department whenever they receive an item by post. These items can be collected from 8am to 6pm on working days.

 

[Sushubh]

You can get them printed with your own photo on them.

For just Rs 300, leave stamp of yourself with India Post - Times of India

The article mentions that they can be ordered online. The postagestamps.gov.in is so bad that I cannot really locate the relevant section. I did find this though: Postage Stamps:: Postage Stamps,Stamp issue calender 2014, Paper postage, Commemorative and definitive stamps, Service Postage Stamps, Philately Offices, Philatelic Bureaux and counters, Mint stamps (unused stamps)

 

[Sushubh]

Even speedpost tracking is broken right now. Links appear to have been broken as well. Click any link on google search result right now and it's 404. Freaks.

Track Consignment

 

[Saurabh Srivastava]

Try this one http://www.indiapost.gov.in/speednettracking.aspx If you are tracking package from any shopping website then you might have to wait for couple of days to get tracking status ready.

 

[Sushubh]

as i mentioned above. all existing links are 404. yours included.

 

[Saurabh Srivastava]

Share your tracking ID if you don't mind. I can open link in fact I opened my link before posting.