PA Exam Materials – 159 POSTALMANUAL VOLUME V (PO & RMS GENERAL REGULATIONS)
• 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 is called Sub-Foreign Post Office
• Sections which are travelling offices of the Railway Mail Service working on Railway or river steamer lines is called Transit Sections
• The officer in-charge of a set of a transit section is called as Mail Guard or Mail Agent.
• Department of posts started assistance centers to help the customers who are regularly posting maximum number of letters, which are called MMC.
• This sorting office is situated on the premises of the newspaper is called as Press Sorting Office
• 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, is called as Record Office
• The official in-charge of a Head Record Office is designated as Head Record Officer
• Every Post Office other than Branch Post Offices and EDSOs is identified as Unit Bag Office
• Every HRO/SEO in RMS is identified as a District Bag Office
• The Postal Stores Depot situated at the Headquarters of Postal Circle is identified as
Circle Bag Office
• A 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 is called as Account bag.
• A cell established in a sorting office, situated centrally, for transcribing into English the addresses written in Regional languages on Postal articles posted in post or mail offices is called as a transcription center.
• The machine franked articles are required to be tendered at the counter of the specified P.O. or Mail Office, bundled separately according to the value of the franks accompanied with a window delivery ticket.
• 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 is called Sub-Foreign Post Office
• Sections which are travelling offices of the Railway Mail Service working on Railway or river steamer lines is called Transit Sections
• The officer in-charge of a set of a transit section is called as Mail Guard or Mail Agent.
• Department of posts started assistance centers to help the customers who are regularly posting maximum number of letters, which are called MMC.
• This sorting office is situated on the premises of the newspaper is called as Press Sorting Office
• 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, is called as Record Office
• The official in-charge of a Head Record Office is designated as Head Record Officer
• Every Post Office other than Branch Post Offices and EDSOs is identified as Unit Bag Office
• Every HRO/SEO in RMS is identified as a District Bag Office
• The Postal Stores Depot situated at the Headquarters of Postal Circle is identified as
Circle Bag Office
• A 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 is called as Account bag.
• A cell established in a sorting office, situated centrally, for transcribing into English the addresses written in Regional languages on Postal articles posted in post or mail offices is called as a transcription center.
• The machine franked articles are required to be tendered at the counter of the specified P.O. or Mail Office, bundled separately according to the value of the franks accompanied with a window delivery ticket.
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