MTS Notes: Duties Of Letter Box Peon PDF

MTS Notes : Duties Of Letter Box Peon - Praveen Panishetti Minimum No. of Questions : Maximum No. of Questions : Average No. of Questions : Karnataka Questions : Postal Manual Volume VI part III Rule 116 Deals with Duties of Letter Box Peon Duties Of Letter Box Peon Letter box peon are r...

MTS Notes : Duties Of Letter Box Peon - Praveen Panishetti Minimum No. of Questions : Maximum No. of Questions : Average No. of Questions : Karnataka Questions : Postal Manual Volume VI part III Rule 116 Deals with Duties of Letter Box Peon Duties Of Letter Box Peon Letter box peon are required to know the hours at which the letter-boxes in their beats are cleared and at which mails are despatched from, and delivered at, the post office Letter box peon’s are required to clear the letter-boxes in their beats, and also to bring to the postmaster's notice any damage to, or defect in, any letter-box that may be observed by them When a letter-box attendant is about to proceed on his rounds, the postmaster or responsible Assistant should make over to him the keys of letter-boxes the changeable hour plates (when letter-boxes are provided with these plates) and a bag in which to place articles found in the letter-boxes. After the last letter-box has been cleared, the LB peon must return to post office without any delay, where the postmaster or responsible attendant will receive from him the keys of letter-boxes, the hourplates and the bag The keys of the letter boxes and the hour-plates must be kept in the custody of the postmaster or responsible Assistant and never given out to the letter-box attendants except at the hours fixed for them to leave the post office for the purpose of clearing the letter-boxes Electronic clearances of letter boxes and their prompt monitoring is done through Nanyatha software. This application helps in uploading the data about the location of letter boxes, date, time of clearance, number of letters and the person who has cleared the letter box. Nanyatha Software LB attendant after opening the letter box has to scan the barcode through the handset by using an installed android application. The barcode stickers are affixed inside the LB doors to ensure that the scanning happens only when the letter box is opened After scanning the barcode, the LB attendant using the android application should type the number of letters cleared in that letter box. The details of LB, time of clearance and number of letters cleared in that letter box will be sent to the central server through the GPRS facility. The central server validates the GPS coordinates of the letter box and updates the date, time of clearance, number of letters cleared and generates MIS respectively. 1 Employment of letter-box peons to carry mails Letter box attendants employed in post offices that have town sub or branch offices attached to them may be employed in addition to their other duties, in conveying mails to and from the town sub or branch offices. Their services may also be utilised as packers. 2