India Post issues orders under which it can hire third-party persons to pick up and deliver articles from post offices, with a 12% commission for every delivery
With online orders piling up, India Post is hiring students and the jobless to deliver goods, S.K. Sinha, secretary at the department of post, said on Thursday.
The department recently issued orders under which it can hire
third-party persons, such as unemployed people and students, to pick up
and deliver articles from post offices, with a 12% commission for every
delivery.
“If you pick up about 10 orders of about 1 kg, you can earn Rs100-250
per day,” said Sinha, adding that the programme will also help generate
employment. There’s an upper limit for how much commission you can earn.
The outsourcing will augment its parcel service and bring it at par with
other private parcel services that offer to pick up orders from the
customer’s location.
The postal department’s revenue from COD (cash on delivery) consignments
from e-commerce majors surged to Rs.1,300 crore in the year ending
March 2016, up from Rs.500 crore in 2014-15, and just Rs.100 crore in
2013-14.
E-commerce firms availing India Post’s services include all the major
online portals such as Amazon India, Flipkart as well as Snapdeal.
The requirements to register for the program is an identification proof
and reference from two prominent person known to the post office, after
which the third party will be given a licence to deliver and pick up
articles.
With e-commerce and financial services expected to take off, the
department is expecting earnings from these services to help break even
in the next 6-7 years.
India Post recorded a deficit of about Rs.6,000 crore for fiscal year 2015, a 14.4% increase from a year earlier.
The department is also looking at revenue from its online service,
e-post office, which sells philately products as well as the newly
launched bottled Gangajal, water from the river Ganga.
There is strong demand for Gangajal with almost all the stock sold out, added Sinha.
India Post has sold at least 4,000 bottles of Gangajal, considered holy
by Hindus, from its post offices and online and has witnessed strong
demand from southern states such as Tamil Nadu.
“While India Post doesn’t generate any profit from the Gangajal program,
it does create a lot of goodwill for the department, which in turn can
help attract users for its speed post and banking services,” Sinha said.
Source :Live Mint
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