Postal orders should be new look

Indian Posts Department should give a new modern look to postal-orders besides having a convenient sale-system. With modernised clearing-operation, it is needless to provide space for payable Post-Office. These should be payable at par at all post-offices. Presently postal-orders are available only at select post-offices that too in restricted timings of just two hours. These should be available at all post offices during their complete working hours like postage-stamps are sold. Postal-orders should also be available for frequent users in convenient booklet-forms with ten postal-orders. Special postal-orders for RTI purpose with payee?s name endorsed as ?Accounts Officer? should be introduced.

Denominations for postal-orders presently are rupees 1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 20, 50 and 100. But postal-orders of rupees 1, 2 and 7 are hardly available or even of any considerable use. Even if postal-orders of these denominations are available, they are very old and not handle-able. Considering high cost of printing and handling of postal-orders, postal-orders should be in minimum 10-rupees denomination. Instead new denominations of rupees 200 and 500 can be added.

MADHU AGRAWAL
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