Post offices in Mysore initiate new services

Post offices in Mysore will expand into newer areas of service including providing ATM facilities and free pick-up service for postal articles.

Four post offices in Mysore are being provided with ATM facilities that will allow customers to withdraw money without having to wait at the counter in the post office. Postal Life Insurance is being made online and core banking facility is being extended to all post offices in the city.

Revealing this on the occasion of the National Postal Week, which concluded today, Senior Superintendent of Post Offices D Shivaiah highlighted the new initiatives being taken up by the Department of Posts in improving the mail business.

Highlighting other online services and advanced technology being adopted, he said five exclusive pick-up vehicles have been provided in Mysore for facilitating free pick-up service for speed post, business parcel and logistics post. An exclusive counter for logistics post and business parcel at the RMS Building in Mandi Mohalla, near the railway station, had been set up. Customers could pay their electricity bills at post offices in rural areas too.

The Postal Week celebration was aimed at generating a broader awareness about the department, its role and activities among the public at the national level and highlight its contribution to the social and economic development of the country, Shivaiah added.