India Post ties up with Pitney Bowes of US
India Post has tied up with US-based postal solutions provider Pitney Bowes to offer enhanced mailing services to the users.
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NEW DELHI: India Post has tied up with US-based postal solutions provider Pitney Bowes to offer enhanced mailing services to the users. The American company is also in talks with the postal department for setting up ATM-like kiosks from where users would be able to send mails and parcels.
���We are in talks with the postal department to install the kiosks at all the major post offices in the country,��� Pitney Bowes president for Asia Pacific and Middle East Eric Yves Mahe told ET. Users would be able to weigh their mails and parcels at the kiosks and use the electronic stamping to send them. For payments, both cash and credit/debit card facility would be available at the kiosk. This would save the users from standing in queues for sending their mails.
���We are in talks with the postal department to install the kiosks at all the major post offices in the country,��� Pitney Bowes president for Asia Pacific and Middle East Eric Yves Mahe told ET. Users would be able to weigh their mails and parcels at the kiosks and use the electronic stamping to send them. For payments, both cash and credit/debit card facility would be available at the kiosk. This would save the users from standing in queues for sending their mails.
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Also, the company would offer India Post a mechanical solution for sorting out the mails to make working of the department fast and reliable. Meanwhile, the Department of Posts (DoP) on Wednesday launched two models of remotely managed franking system (RMFS) machines, one each from Neopost and Pitney Bowes.
These machines would help the corporate customers of India Post to book the mails and parcels without travelling to the post offices. Unlike the older machines fitted with impact printing of franks, these new franking machines will use digitally controlled inkjet printing technology and will print a clear, clean, dynamically bar-coded secure frank that may even be used to offer track and trace by the India Post.
The network that India Post is setting up with the help of the franking machine manufacturers, will enable the new technology franking machine user to remotely credit his machine through dial up or any other network while sitting in his office. The DoP will set up its own centre for electronically receiving fund deposit instructions from the State Bank of India.
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