India Post to Offer Air Parcel Service

Mangalore: India Post, which is reinventing itself in the changing times, will start offering air parcel services within a fortnight from now.
Postmaster-General for South Karnataka region Vasumitra told presspersons here on Saturday that India Post would handle air parcels weighing one kg and above. The department was already offering air cargo services to the four metros from Bangalore under the scheme Logistics Post, which allowed trans-shipment of consignments weighing more than 25 kg. Vasumitra, who was here to launch the Project Arrow at the Head Post office, said India Post would introduce flat-rate boxes in order to make sending of smaller consignments by air easy. A one-kg box would typically cost Rs. 1,000 while a five-kg box might cost Rs. 2,500. There would be a 2.5-kg box as well. The India Post officials would soon explore the possibility of sending flowers and fish products as air cargo. The Logistics Post parcels could be booked from Mangalore too, but they would be treated as surface cargo up to Bangalore.
13/09/09 The Hindu/Daijiworld.com

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