India Post enables real time tracking with new mobile app

NEW DELHI, INDIA: The Department of Posts has rolled out India Post Mobile App, which is an android based application developed by Centre for Excellence in Postal Technology (CEPT), Mysore. The application includes features like real time tracking of accountable articles, Post Office search, Postage calculator, etc. through Mobile Phone.

Considering the rapid growth of e-commerce business in the country in the recent past, the Department of Posts has also launched the e-commerce centre at Safdarjang, New Delhi.

Online companies such as Amazon, Paytm, Yepme, Snapdeal, etc. are already using the Postal Department’s services for their parcels.

This processing centre will handle exclusively all the e-commerce business with the state of the art technology driven facility for quick and smooth operation starting from booking till dispatch from the centre.

The centre is equipped with modern technology and newly introduced conveyor belt where parcels get sorted with the help of conveyor belt. The parcels are collected from the e-commerce customers, processed and dispatched within 24 hours to respective destination through quickest available flight/train, as the case may be.

The e-commerce centre is capable of handling 30,000 parcels/articles per day.