PA Exam Materials – 149 POSTALMANUAL VOLUME V (PO & RMS GENERAL REGULATIONS)
Computerized Registration Centres: The Registration Branch of the Mail Office, where the processing of registration work is done on computers, is called Computerized Registration Sorting Centre (CRC). A CRC can be situated in the Mail Office itself or in a separate location.
Sorting Sub-Office: A sorting sub-office is a sub-office which is selected from its position at or near the junction of several mail lines, to serve as a Sorting Office for articles addressed to, or received from, offices to which the route lies through the sorting sub-office. It is authorized to receive articles of all kinds in sorting.
Nodal Post Office: In important cities and towns, some Post Offices are authorized to receive letters from neighbouring Post Offices and sort the mail as per the sorting diagram given by the RMS Superintendents. This is to reduce the peak hour pressure in the local sorting offices. Such offices are identified as Nodal post Offices.
Central Bagging Unit/ Kendriya Bagging Unit- This Unit is a branch of RMS office. Here the bundles prepared by the Post Offices/Mail Offices grouped and enclosed in a direct bag. For instance, if there are 80 Post Offices in a city and each Post Office is preparing 20 bundles for 20 Post Offices/Districts/ Circles/Mail Offices, all these bundles will reach Central Bagging Unit/KBU in 'L' Bag/ 'R' Bag. KBU/CBU will open the 'L'/'R' bags, group the bundles with reference to the destination, i.e., Circle-wise or District-wise or PO - wise or Mail Office wise and include them in respective bags for the PO/Sorting Office concerned for delivery/further transmission, as the case may be.
Returned Letter Office: A Returned Letter office is established at the Headquarters of a Postal Circle and deals with unclaimed and refused articles and articles without addresses or with undecipherable or incomplete addresses.
Transcription Centre - A Transcription Centre is a cell established in a Sorting Office, situated normally at the Headquarters of the Circle or at any other convenient Sorting Office in the Circle. Transcription centre transcribes into English the addresses written in regional languages on postal articles posted in Post or Mail Offices.
Office of Exchange - A Post Office or Sorting Office or Section which exchanges mails with offices in foreign countries is known as an "Office of Exchange”. It is referred to as the despatching office of exchange in respect of mails it makes up and addresses to an office of exchange in another country, while it is called the receiving office of exchange in respect of mails addressed to it by an office of exchange from another country. The term "outward office of exchange" and "inward office of exchange" are also used to describe them. Even offices functioning as both inward and outward Offices of exchange may function in one of the capacities only for certain countries.
Office of Exchange of Transit - An office of Exchange on the border which only receives and despatches closed bags addressed to or received from other offices of exchange in India is known as an "Office of Exchange of transit”. Such an office will not close bags for foreign countries or open inward foreign bags. Its function is only to exchange mails with the carrier or with the officials of a foreign administration.
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