Explain FIVE services NIPOST renders to the public. – NABTEB QUESTION

Services which NIPOST renders to the public are:

(i) Mail post: First class and second class mail including air mail services

(ii) Parcel post: Parcels are handled in the NIPOST

(iii) Business reply service or Free post:

The addressee is able to send reply without incurring any expenses
The normal postage for this service is prepaid by the user
It is mostly used for advertisement

(iv) Private box and mailbag: All letters addressed to the business man are placed in a numbered private box, until they are collected

(v) Licensing of Franking machines: Firstly recorded impressions and the amount of postage where there is a considerable quantity of mail to be stamped and posted.

(vi) Redirection of mails: Where the addressee changed his address

(vii) Post restante:

By travelers who have no fixed address for receipt of parcels or correspondences
The postal packets are kept in NIPOST until they are collected

(viii) Registration of letters:

To ensure the safety of the mail; receipts are obtained every time the letter changes hand.
The addressee must sign for the parcel when it is delivered to him.

(ix) Recorded delivery: For parcels that are important but not financially valuable.

To ensure that the sender is given evidence of delivery of the mailed parcel

(x) Express delivery service (Expedited Mail Service) EMS.

Letters and parcels are conveyed specially to the addressee immediately on arrival at NIPOST
Handed over at the counter to the NIPOST official to deliver.

(xi) Payment functions:

Money order- Means of payment for mail order business through the NIPOST.
Cash on Delivery (COD)
Provided to assist the mail order delivery
It provides a safeguard to both sellers and buyers.
Sellers do not tie up in bad debts, and the mail-order customers have the goods as soon as they pay.

Postal order: