ALLAHABAD: The Department of Posts has decided to carry relief material for Uttarakhandflood victims without any postal charges.
Director, Postal Services, Allahabad Region, Krishna Kumar Yadav, said
that the facility would be available at all head post offices up to July
20. India Post would collect relief material from general
public/institutions / agencies /NGO and dispatch the same to
Uttarakhand.
Yadav said that the package containing relief material should not more
than 35kg in weight. It should be securely packed and marked as "relief
material for Uttarkhand".
He said that the sender will not be required to pay any postage. Relief
material containing clothes, blanket, woolens, medicines, tarpaulin,
plastic sheets, torch, long shelf-life food etc may be sent through this
arrangement. However, while sending the relief material sender should
ensure that the relief material should not contain liquid, breakable
items or any other items prohibited for transmission through Post
Offices.
Yadav further added that the package containing the relief materials
should be addressed to "senior post master, Dehradun GPO,
Dehradun-248001 (Uttarakhand)". Relief material transmitted through
Postal channel would be delivered by the senior postmaster, Dehradun GPO
to 'Centre for Collection & Distribution of Relief Material,
Maharana Pratap Sports College, Rajpur Road, Dehradun' set up by the
state government.
For booking packages containing relief material, special receipts with the heading "Relief material for Uttarakhand flood victims"
will be printed by the postal authorities. The original copy may be
handed over to the sender and the carbon copy will be kept as office
copy by the post offices,
Source : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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