POSTMEN / MTS EXAMINATION 2025. - STUDY MATERIALS 1.

 Question Bank – Q& A on the topic of PO Guide Part – I -4

1. Which of the following units is found directly under a Postal Region but NOT directly under a Postal Circle? 
a) Circle Stamp Depot b) Returned Letter Office (RLO) c) Foreign Post Offices d) Regions
**Answer: c) Foreign Post Offices**

2. The establishment date of PTC Madurai is closest in time to which other PTC's establishment date? 
a) PTC Saharanpur b) PTC Vadodara c) PTC Mysore d) PTC Guwahati
**Answer: d) PTC Guwahati** (PTC Madurai: Aug 25, 1981; PTC Guwahati: Oct 27, 2003 - closest of the options)

3. What is the designation of the Head of a Postal Sub Division? 
a) Chief Postmaster General b) Postmaster General c) Inspecting Postmaster (IP) / Assistant Superintendent of Post Offices (ASP) d) Senior Superintendent of Post Offices
**Answer: c) Inspecting Postmaster (IP) / Assistant Superintendent of Post Offices (ASP)**

4. A Transit Mail Office is best described as: 
a) An RMS office located at a Railway Station. b) A Sorting Office situated outside the railway station. c) A traveling unit of RMS on a train. d) A Head Record Office at a division headquarters.
**Answer: c) A traveling unit of RMS on a train.**

5. How many additional Postal Stores Depots (PSDs) are there beyond the one at each of the 23 circle headquarters? 
a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4
**Answer: c) 3** (Nagpur, Madurai, Aligarh)

6. Ordinary unregistered letters are kept at the Returned Letter Office (RLO) for how long before destruction? 
a) 1 month b) 3 months c) Indefinitely d) Until sender accepts
**Answer: a) 1 month**

7. An Office of Exchange (OE) that is exclusively designed to receive and dispatch closed mail bags addressed to or from OEs in India and foreign countries is called:
 a) A Sub Foreign Post Office b) An Office of Exchange of Transit (Transit OE) c) An Inward OE d) An Outward OE
**Answer: b) An Office of Exchange of Transit (Transit OE)**

8.  Which of the following is listed as a Unit Under Circle, but NOT as a Unit Under Region? 

a) Postal Training Centre b) General Post Offices c) Returned Letter Office (RLO) d) Mail Motor Service
**Answer: c) Returned Letter Office (RLO)** (RLO is under Circle, but not listed under Region)

9. The headquarters of an RMS Division, if located at its headquarters, is called a: 

a) Sorting Office b) Sub Record Office c) Transit Mail Office d) Head Record Office
**Answer: d) Head Record Office**

10. Which PTC was established earliest among the given list? 

a) PTC Guwahati b) PTC Dharbanga c) PTC Vadodara d) PTC Saharanpur
**Answer: d) PTC Saharanpur** (April 2, 1951)

11. The individual who heads an RMS Division holds the designation of: 

a) Inspecting Postmaster (IP) b) Assistant Superintendent of Post Offices (ASP) c) Senior Mail Guard (SRM) / Superintendent, Railway Mail Service (SSRM) d) Inspecting Railway Mail Service (IRM)
**Answer: c) Senior Mail Guard (SRM) / Superintendent, Railway Mail Service (SSRM)**

12. Registered articles are held at the Returned Letter Office (RLO) for a period of:

 a) One month b) Three months c) One year d) Until sender claims
**Answer: b) Three months**

13. Which of the following is an example of a Transit Office of Exchange (OE) in West Bengal?

 a) IGI TMO b) Bongaon PO c) APTMO, Mumbai d) Amritsar RMS
**Answer: b) Bongaon PO**

14. An Office of Exchange (OE) is capable of being:

 a) Only inward b) Only outward c) Both inward and outward d) Neither inward nor outward
**Answer: c) Both inward and outward**

15. The head of a Postal Division is designated as:

 a) Postmaster General b) Chief Postmaster General c) Senior Superintendent of Post Offices / Superintendent of Post Offices d) Inspecting Postmaster
**Answer: c) Senior Superintendent of Post Offices / Superintendent of Post Offices**

16. All Circle Stamp Depots (CSD) and Postal Store Depots (PSD) have been merged and are now solely referred to as:

 a) Circle Stamp Depots b) Combined Postal Depots c) Postal Stores Depots d) Central Supply Depots
**Answer: c) Postal Stores Depots**

17. The Transit OE located in Bihar facilitates mail exchange with which country?

 a) Pakistan b) Bangladesh c) Nepal d) Bhutan
**Answer: c) Nepal** (Raxaul SO)

18. The current location (Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India) has a Transit OE named:

 a) APTMO, Mumbai b) APTMO, Kochi c) APTMO, Chennai d) APTMO, Hyderabad
**Answer: c) APTMO, Chennai**

19. How many Postal Training Centres are explicitly listed with their establishment dates?

 a) 5 b) 6 c) 7 d) 4
**Answer: b) 6**

20. The head of the Region is known as the:

 a) Chief Postmaster General b) Senior Superintendent of Post Offices c) Postmaster General d) Inspecting Postmaster
**Answer: c) Postmaster General**