The Department of Posts launched a 24-hour Speed Post service, offering guaranteed next-day delivery for urgent items. The service, unveiled by Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, is now available in six major cities, including Delhi and Mumbai.
The Department of Posts has launched a 24-hour Speed Post service on Tuesday, in the presence of Jyotiraditya Scindia, Union Minister of Communications, and Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani, Minister of State for Communications. The 24 Speed Post introduces next-day guaranteed delivery for urgent and time-sensitive consignments. In the first phase, the service will be available across Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru and Hyderabad. Alongside this, 24 and 48 Speed Post services will provide assured D+1 and D+2 delivery timelines, enabled through dedicated processing windows and priority air transmission.
Three New Services Unveiled
"Today, India Post is on her growth path with three new products being launched today. 24 Speed Post, 48 Speed Post and 24 Speed Pass. These three products have been tested on a pilot basis across multiple cities," Scindia said. With the 98 per cent delivery hit time, the minister said they are being launched across six cities.
Commitment to Customer Satisfaction
"We assure our customers that not only will we deliver on time, but we will deliver based on our customers' aspirations. We will deliver based on cutting-edge technology. We will deliver based on the latest customer relationship management tools. And we will satisfy each and every single customer of ours. India Post has the scale and the trust that no other delivery system across the world has, with 165,000 post offices across the length and breadth of our country," he said.
Future Expansion and E-commerce Ambitions
He said the Department aims to be the logistics fulfilment provider for every e-commerce transaction in the country.
"And it is with that ambition and that goal that we today launch three products. We will be increasing the number of lanes and the number of cities that we will be spreading these products to by September, and in stage two by 31st December. For 24 speedposts and 48 speedposts, we hope to reach all T1 and T2 cities, and for 24 speed parcel, an increasing number of cities by December 31st," he further noted.
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