PA Exam Materials – 151 POSTALMANUAL VOLUME V (PO & RMS GENERAL REGULATIONS)
Mass Mailing Center (MMC) - In order to help the customers who are regularly posting maximum number of letters, Department of posts started assistance centers which are called MMC in bigger cities. The responsibility of this center is to receive the loose letters, circulars & blank envelopes separately from the customers & help them in writing the addresses, enclose the circulars/ letters inside the envelopes & if necessary, affixing the postage stamps/franking the mail. For this purpose, MMC may engage the assistance of college students, house-wives, pensioners, etc., on payment of some amount on hourly basis. To meet this expenditure, the customers will have to pay extra in addition to the postage as decided by the department from time to time.
Press Sorting Office (PSO) - This sorting office is situated on the premises of the newspaper. The entire expenditure towards wages for the establishment is borne by the newspaper publisher apart from providing required stationary for working the sorting office. This office works to suit the dispatch timing of the newspaper & closes direct letter bags to the PO’s/sorting offices concerned which are dispatched through local regular sorting offices.
Record Office - A Record Office is a stationary office of the Railway Mail Service where the work-papers of the sections attached to it are prepared, checked and placed on record, and by which all forms, bags and stationary required for the use of those sections are supplied. The official in-charge of a Record Office is designated a Record Officer.
Head Record Office - It is a stationary office situated at the Headquarters of RMS Division which, in addition to the ordinary duties of a Record Office is entrusted, with the preparation of salary and contingent bills for the entire Division and the accounts connected therewith is termed a Head Record Office. The official in-charge of a Head Record Office is designated a Head Record Officer.
Sub-record Office -A sub-record office is a stationary office of the Railway Mail Service, situated at the same station as a Mail Office, where the workpapers of the Mail Office as well as the sections, if any, attached to the Sub Record Office are prepared, checked and placed on record and by which all forms, bags and stationery required for the use of the Mail Office and the sections are supplied. The official in-charge of a Sub-Record Office is designated a Sub-Record Officer. A Sub-Record Officer may also work as Head Sorting Assistant or Sub- Sorting Assistant or Mail Agent.
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