I. PA Exam Materials – 158 POSTALMANUAL VOLUME V (PO & RMS GENERAL REGULATIONS)
Gist of rules from Volume V
• The first class Head Office situated at the Headquarters of the Head of a circle or, where there are more than one such head office, the one attached to the Headquarters, is termed as General Post Office
• Any Post Office which is situated on a line of through mail communication, and receives and sorts bags intended for offices in advance, without opening them, is a transit office.
• A branch of RMS where closed bags are received and despatched, sorting of letters is not done in this unit is called Transit Mail Office.
• An office charged with the duty of opening the sorting mail bags received by it and disposing of their contents is termed as Sorting office
• In important cities where mail traffic is high, sorting machine have been provided which have high speed of sorting and such offices are called as Automatic Mail Processing Centres
• The Registration Branch of the Mail Office, where the processing of registration work is done on computers, is called as Computerized Registration Sorting Centre (CRC)
• 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, are identified as Nodal post Offices
• The office which deals with unclaimed and refused articles and articles without addresses or with undecipherable or incomplete addresses is established at the Headquarters of a Postal Circle is called as Returned Letter office.
• A Post Office or Sorting Office or Section which exchanges mails with offices in foreign countries is known as an Office of Exchange
• 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
• An office of exchange in which the work of assessment of customs duty on foreign mails is also carried out is a "Foreign Post Office;
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