Taking forward the Digital India dream, postmen at Bokaro go ‘Smart’; equipped with Android Smart Phone loaded ‘Postman’ mobile apps to take down people’s signatures and immediately upload the deliveries.
The Assistant Postmaster of Bokaro Head Post Office Vishwajit Rai handed over Android mobile phones loaded with a new app to the postmen; he announced that postman mobile application for real-time mail delivery has been initiated.
“This will cover speed post, registered letter, and registered parcels, among others. India Post has launched the application that will keep a tab on movement of the booked article to its destination”, he added.
This app has features of receiving the articles, obtaining e-signatures, uploading the data on the spot to the central server. Once one (the customer) ‘ink’ his signature on the smartphone, the details of delivery will be immediately uploaded to the central server and the record would be updated that the article has been delivered, said Rai.
“This system is similarly to that used by some of the premium private courier agencies, which update pick-up to the delivery of any article on the palmtops”, he added.
On the part of its modernisation drive, postal department is on move to increase its operational effectiveness, said an official.