Department of Post' to have GPS equipped vehicles

Date : 25.7.2016

Department of Post' to have GPS equipped vehicles

Department of Posts has decided to use GPS device for better monitoring of vehicles. This step has been taken to mechanize mail delivery in phased manner.

India Post network has expanded from 23,344 post offices to 1,55,035 post offices as by 31.3.2008. Of these 1,39,173 Post Offices are in rural areas and 15,862 Post Offices in urban areas with an average post office serving 7,174 people and covering an area of approximately 21.2 sq. kms so the department has undertaken several other projects to improve the quality of mail processing, transmission and delivery.

Under National Address Data Base Management System project, the Department has undertaken and initiative to put in place a national address database management system with an objective to effectively manage the address database of public/ customers, update the addresses online, and help the customers in locating correct addresses and PIN codes.