With online shopping growing at a tremendous pace in the country, India Post, on Monday, launched a centre in the national capital to exclusively handle all the e-commerce business.
“This processing centre will handle exclusively all the e-commerce business with the state-of-the-art technology for quick and smooth operation starting from booking till dispatch,” an official statement said.
30,000 parcels a dayThe centre is capable of handling 30,000 parcels/articles a day.
Telecom Minster Ravi Shankar Prasad, who launched the e-commerce centre, said, “India Posts is best equipped to lead government efforts to accelerate pace of economic growth in rural India. It has to be the lead-partner in the private sector’s keenness to reach rural India.”
E-commerce players such as Amazon, Paytm, Yepme and Snapdeal have begun availing services at the centre.
The Minister said, “I want that in e-commerce, India Post should become the largest player. Growth in the e-commerce business has put India Post in a very advantageous position, and in the backdrop of golden past, there is no reason why it should not take lead position in this sector.” Meanwhile, India Post mobile app was also launched on Monday. The android-based app includes features such as real-time tracking, post office search and postage calculator.
