POSTMEN / MTS EXAMINATION 2025. - STUDY MATERIALS 6.
The following gist is given below for keeping memory purpose of all the important rules covered under PO Guide Part I as per the syllabus. Please read again and again and keep memory of the following gist of rules in PO Guide Part I.
Important Definitions (from Post Office Regulations, 2024 - Regulations 1 to 2)
• “Accountable items”: Such items that provide a receipt for tracking at booking and require a recipient's signature (ink or digital) for delivery confirmation.
• “Act”: Means the Post Office Act, 2023 (43 of 2023).
• “Addressee”: The intended recipient or the person to whom any item is to be delivered.
• “Administrative instructions”: Executive or administrative orders or instructions including guidelines issued as specified under regulation 178 or regulation 179 or regulation 180, as the case may be.
• “Authorised person”: A person, duly authorised by the addressee to receive the item or by a payee to receive the money on his behalf.
• “Delivery”: The process of delivering an item to the addressee's address or to an authorized person or location designated to receive it, following the standard delivery practices for that addressee.
• “Director (Postal Services)”: The Director in any administrative office of the Post Office or an officer exercising the powers of Director (Postal Services).
• “In course of transmission by post”: The period starting from receipt of an item by the Post Office to its delivery to the addressee or return to the sender or otherwise disposed of.
• “Letter box”: A box installed in Post Offices or mail offices or at public places, for posting of fully prepaid letters, postcards, letter cards and book post items.
• “Payee”: The person who intends to receive money through money remittance services.
• “Post": Any system for collection, clearance, sorting, dispatch, conveyance, and delivery of items by the postal network.
• “Postmaster”: The Director or Chief Postmaster of General Post Office, or Senior Postmaster or Head Postmaster of Head Post Office, or an officer exercising the powers of Postmaster, as the case may be, who is the head of such Post Office.
• “Redirection”: Action of assigning or directing an item to an address, other than the one to which it was initially addressed, for a specific reason.
• “Remitter”: The person who remits money through money remittance services.
• “Rules”: The Post Office Rules, 2024, and the expression “rule” shall mean a rule of the said rules.
• “Schedule”: The schedule annexed to these regulations.
• “Sender”: A person who sends any item.
• “Weight”: Gross weight or volumetric weight, whichever is higher, except when stated otherwise.
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