PA Exam Materials – 155 POSTALMANUAL VOLUME V (PO & RMS GENERAL REGULATIONS)
Packet bags: Bag returned empty to UBO/DBO/CBO/PO or sacks containing such bags are treated as packets bags. Packet bags are not due bags and when despatched they are treated as unusual mail.
Transit Bag; A transit bag is used to enclose several bags sent to the same office or section there by affording protection to them, and securing the disposal in transit of only one bag in place of several. A transit bag must contain a mail list. Transit bags are due bags.
Plural Transit bags; If as an ordinary circumstance, the bulk of the mail to be despatched to any office is more than a single transit bag can contain, the use of two or more transit bags will be ordered in the due mail list. In such cases, the due transit bags should be numbered 1, 2 and soon, and these numbers should be marked on the labels of the bags. Each plural transit bag closed should contain its separate mail list showing the particulars of bags enclosed therein.
Extra Transit bags; Whenever, owing to the unusual bulk of the mails for an office or section it is necessary to use one or more transit bags in excess of the number entered in the due mail list, the words “Extra Bag" should be written on the label of each additional transit bag. The number of extra transit bags should be included in the number of due mails entered in the mail list as actually despatched and a note should be written on the mail list specifying the number of extra transit bags made up. Each extra transit bag closed should contain its separate mail list showing the particulars of bags enclosed therein.
Account bag: An account bag is used between a sub-office and its head office to enclose cash bags and articles, documents, etc connected with accounts as well as correspondences unconnected with accounts, from the head office to one of its sub-offices and vice versa.
When sent by the head office to the sub-office, it contains the SO slip and when sent by the sub-office to the head office, it contains the SO daily account. Account bags may be loose or enclosed in mail bags made up by Post offices and mail offices. Account bag are due bags. They should contain all types of postal articles posted in sos deliverable at HO and vice versa.
Cash bag: A cash bag is used to enclose remittance of cash between post offices. Cash bags are not due bags. They are ordinarily despatched enclosed in account bags, registered bags or branch office bags, but may also be sent loose in the charge of a postman, village postman, overseer or other subordinate
Special bag: A special bag is used to enclose correspondence of the high officers of Govt mentioned in the post office guide part-1, as entitled to the privilege, and the correspondence of the DG Posts when on tour. A special bag contains unregistered and registered articles of the letter mail, the latter being tied in a separate bundle with the registered list in which they are entered placed on top. Special bags are not due bags, but when despatched they are treated as unusual mails.
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