PA Exam Materials – 170 POSTALMANUAL VOLUME V (PO & RMS GENERAL REGULATIONS)
III. READ FOR THE EXAMINATION PURPOSE
III. READ FOR THE EXAMINATION PURPOSE
1. The first class HO situated at the HQ of the Head of the circle or, where there are more than one such HO, the one is attached to HQ is called as General Post Office (6)
2. The service responsible for the carriage of mails by rail, road, river and air and for the collection and distribution of mails received form Post offices by mail offices and section Railway Mail Service (2)
3. A main office of group of post offices consisting of itself and a number of smaller offices called sub and branch office which have been placed under its Account jurisdictions is called as Head Post Office (5)
4. Post office which is situated on a line of through mail communication receive & sorts bags intended for office in advance, without opening them is Transit Mail Office (9a)
5. A branch of RMS where closed bags are received and dispatched sorting of letter is not done in this unit mail agent or mail guard is in charge of this unit is a Transit mail office (9b)
6. Sorting mail office charged with the duty of opening the sorting mail bags received by it and deposing of their contents. AMPC mean automatic mail processing centre sorting is done by machine. CRC mean computerized Registration centre. Regn work is done by computer (9- 10)
7. Sorting sub office are situated near the junction of several mail lines. Nodal Post office is working in important cities some post office are authorized to receive letters from neighbouring PO and sort the mail as per sorting diagram. Central bagging unit is branch of RMS office (11)
8. An office is established at HQ of a Postal circle and deal with unclaimed and refused articles and articles without address or incomplete address is called as Returned letter office (12)
9. Mark correct options A post office or Sorting office or section which exchanges mails with offices in foreign countries is known as ‘Office of exchange”. A Foreign post office is an office of exchange in which the work of assessment of customs duty on foreign mail is also carried out. A Sub foreign Post office is does not close and receive any bags but in which the work of customs examination, assessment and accounting of custom duty is carried out. (13)
10. Railway Mail service working on Railway or river streamer lines is called as Transit section(14)
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