Indian Railways: Indian Railways and India Post have launched Rail Post Gati Shakti Express Cargo Service.
This service is the beginning of the joint parcel product of Railways and India Post.
This is an initiative of a partnership between Indian Railways and India Post to provide the service sector with seamless logistics in the country.
Indian Railways is always marching towards its path of excellence. In this sequence, Railways has provided another big service to its customers.
Indian Railways has started a door-to-door railway parcel pickup and delivery service in partnership with Indian Post.
The name of this service is ‘Rail Post Gati Shakti Express Cargo Service’.
Now the railway will come to pick up the parcel from your home
The most significant advantage of this service will be that customers will not have to go to the railway station for pickup or delivery of the parcel booked from the railways.
This means the customer’s property will come to him by himself.
This service will be available from ‘Rail Post Gati Shakti Express Cargo Service.’
Indian Railways has provided this excellent facility to the customers through its ‘Rail Post Gati Shakti Express Cargo Service’.
Now, when the delivery of railway parcels is done at your home, most of the problems will probably be solved, and there will be an expansion in railway services.
You must have been thinking, how will this be possible? So let us explain in detail about ‘Rail Post Gati Shakti Express Cargo Service’…
A major initiative of a partnership between Indian Railways and Indian Post
It may be noted that Indian Railways has started Rail Post Gati Shakti Express Cargo Service to provide seamless logistics to the service area in the country.
Cargo Seva is a partnership initiative between Indian Railways and India Post.
It will help provide seamless logistics for the service sector in the country.
India Post will pick up the parcel from your home
Under the Rail Post Gati Shakti Express Cargo Service, India Post will pick up the goods at the customer’s doorstep and deliver them to the railway station.
After that, at the destination railway station, India Post will deliver the consignment to the doorstep of the destination address.
That is, the entire logistics service will be provided from the pick up of the parcel to the delivery at the customer’s premises.
‘Rail Post Gati Shakti Express Cargo Service’ has started in four sectors.
Customers will get service from Delhi to Kolkata, Bengaluru to Guwahati, Surat to Muzaffarpur and Hyderabad to Hazrat Nizamuddin.
However, 15 sectors (mentioned in Annexure-A) have been planned to be covered in the first phase.
It is clear from this that Indian Railways will expand this service further.
For your information, let us tell you that on March 31, 2022, a weekly pilot service was started from Surat to Varanasi by adding a VPU with ‘Tapti Ganga Express’.
After the budget announcement in 2022-23, proof of concept was conducted in Surat to Textiles section.
Today after conducting 99 trials on single parcel van mode and 16 shots on full train load mode, Railways has extended this joint initiative to the entire country. I have decided to start over.
Customers will also get a lot of benefits regarding loading through this service. In this, customers can also book small loads of 100 kg.
That is, Railways has made the quantity of its parcel load flexible.
For this affordable tariff, the first mile and last service charge of Rs.6/- per kg has been fixed, which provides a competitive and cost-effective solution to the customers compared to the existing road rates.
A mobile app, JPP, will also get benefit from the service
Apart from this, a mobile app will be developed. Along with booking goods through the app, online payment can also be done. Along with this, you will also be able to track goods live through this app.
Highlights of the service ‘Total Logistics Service.’
Pickup and delivery at customer’s premises, Palletization – i.e. transport through covered.
Sealed boxes, Semi-mechanized handling, Timetabled service, Insurance loss, damage and deterioration at 0.05% of the declared value of the cargo, Unified Parcel Way Bill etc.
A joint marketing team has been formed between the postal and railways to take this initiative forward. The abolition of the slab system of pricing is an innovation here.
For your information, let us tell you that this initiative has complied with the budget announcement for the financial year 2022-23.
Thus, Indian Railways and India Post have duly started their joint parcel service from February 16 2023.
