Press Information Bureau
Government Of India
Ministry of Communications &
Information Technology
(08-May, 2015 15:49 IST )
E-Commerce Centre of Post to start from
Monday
Considering the rapid growth of e-commerce business in the country in
the recent past, the Department of Posts, through Delhi Postal Circle has taken
up a project to establish the e-commerce Centre at Safdarjang, New
Delhi-110003.This processing centre will handle exclusively all the e-commerce
business with the state of the art technology driven facility for quick and
smooth operation starting from booking till dispatch from the centre.
The Centre is equipped with modern technology and newly introduced
conveyor belt where parcels get sorted with the help of conveyor belt. As a
result, the e-Commerce Centre is now capable of handling 30000 parcels/articles
per day. The parcels are collected from the e-commerce customers, processed
& dispatched within 24 hours to respective destination through quickest
available flight/train, as the case may be.
The leading e-commerce customers, viz., Amazon, Paytm, Yepme, Snapdeal,
etc are already availing the benefits of fast, reliable and safe processing of
their e-commerce parcels at the newly established e-commerce Centre at
Safdarjang in New Delhi.
The e-commerce Centre at Safdarjang, New Delhi -110003 is to be
dedicated to the Nation by Sh. Ravi Shankar Prasad, Hon’ble Minister of
Communications & Information Technology on 11th May 2015 .
India Post Mobile App is also launched by the Hon’ble Minister of
Communications & Information Technology on the occasion. .This is an
android based application developed by Centre for Excellence in Postal
Technology (CEPT), Mysore. The application includes features like real time
tracking of accountable articles, Post Office search, Postage calculator, etc
through Mobile Phone.
NNK/MD
(Release ID :121431)
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