PA Exam Materials – 150 POSTALMANUAL VOLUME V (PO & RMS GENERAL REGULATIONS)
A Foreign Post Office - A “Foreign Post Office" an office of exchange in which the work of assessment of customs duty on foreign mails is also carried out. Although mails may be intercepted (and articles not suspected to contain anything dutiable released) in many exchange offices, the work of actual assessment of duty (and opening of articles for this purpose where necessary) is done only in the Foreign Post Offices. Articles received in one office of exchange and suspected to contain dutiable goods, for delivery from an office nearer another office of exchange are directed to the latter for actual examination and assessment of duty.
A Sub-Foreign Post Office - A "Sub-Foreign Post Office" is an office which is not an exchange office (i.e., which does not close bags for other countries and which does not receive from foreign countries bags addressed to it) but in which the work of customs examination, assessment and accounting of customs duty is carried out. Such Sub-Foreign Post Offices are opened mainly for the convenience of senders and addressees who may be required to present documents, etc., for the release or despatch of their foreign articles.
Transit Sections - Transit Sections are travelling offices of the Railway Mail Service working on Railway or river steamer lines. The officer in-charge of a set of a transit section is called a Mail Guard or Mail Agent.
Mail Office - Mail Offices are stationary offices of the Railway Mail Service and are of two kinds, viz., Sorting Mail Offices and transit Mail Offices. The principal point of difference is that, while the former deal with the contents of mail bags addressed to them as well as with closed forward bags, the later deal only with closed bags. The officer in-charge of a set of a Sorting Mail Office is designated a Head Sorting Assistant and the officer in-charge of a set of a transit Mail Office, a Mail Agent irrespective of the status of the incumbent.
Corporate Mail Office or Bulk Mail Center (CMO/BMO) - Consequent on the increase of corporate mail, RMS units, viz., Corporate Mail Offices/Bulk Mail Centers are opened in big cities. Each bulk mailer, i.e., a firm which is capable of posting of 5000 unregistered articles/250 registered articles at a time is identified as bulk mailer. These bulk mailers are supplied with customized sorting list. Bundles are prepared by the bulk mailers as per the customized sorting list. The details of bundles prepared are entered in one invoice which is prepared in duplicate and brought to Bulk Mail Centre. The officer in-charge of the center verifies bundles received from each bulk mailers with reference to invoice received and group them destination-wise for further despatch.
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