Indian Post Office Act, 1898 Overview

An act to consolidate and amend the law concerning post offices in India, covering topics like postal insurance and money orders.

Short form reference for the Indian Post Office Act, 1898, which was passed by the Indian Legislature

A service offered by the post office for protecting mail against loss or damage.

Post service where the recipient pays the value of the item.

A postal service enabling money transfers.

A bill reserving to government the power to make rules on different postal matters.

Combining and amending prior postal laws, making them more organized.

The extent to which the government is responsible for postal services, like insurance and money orders.

The head of the Posts and Telegraphs department.

A postal item posted and addressed within India, or to/from places under the Central Government's oversight, outside India.

A ship specifically tasked with conveying postal mail, whether or not it contains any mail.

Any person working for the Post Office, in any capacity.

Specified postal articles may be excluded from the "inland" definition by the Central Government.

The carriage of postal material by ship according to a contract or arrangement.

The government is not responsible for lost, misdelivered, delayed, or damaged postal items unless specifically agreed upon.

The Central Government sets postal rates for domestic mail, including guidelines on weights, conditions.

Paying postage in advance for domestic mail.

Faster mail delivery using special messengers or services.

The government can require advance payment for some domestic mail.

The government can define the postage costs for mail that hasn't been paid for in advance.

The government can allow for changing the intended recipient of a mailed item and handling the redirection.

Rules made by the Central Government to register newspapers for inland post transmission.

A publication mainly about news, articles, or current topics, published at intervals of no more than 31 days and having a subscriber list, with or without ads.

An extra section to a newspaper. It's considered part of the newspaper if it has the same date, title, and similar content.

Rates for postal articles sent between India and other countries. Set by the Central Government, based on agreements.

The recipient (addressee) is responsible for paying postage on a postal article, unless they return it unopened.

The Post Master General can remit (cancel) postage if a postal article was sent maliciously to annoy the recipient.

The government's liability for lost or damaged postal articles, limited to the insured amount or item value at most.

Postal items with a specified sum recoverable from recipient, paid to the sender, payable to the sender on delivery, but government not liable until receiving that sum.

Central government can create rules governing how value-payable postal items are sent and handled.

A postal item that is refused by the addressee.

When the recipient of a postal item is deceased or cannot be located.

Postage fees that are owed but not paid for a postal article.

The process of collecting outstanding postage fees from a sender/recipient.

Tax applied to goods imported through the post office.

Marks on postal items that show the postal article has been refused, or the addressee is dead or cannot be found, or the amount of postage due.

Evidence that is initially considered true until proven false. Official Post Office markings demonstrate that a postal article is refused.

The legal responsibility of the sender for unpaid postage on a refused or undeliverable postal article.