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How post-office can survive in this e-mail era?

Tags: money, relationships, post office
Asked by Mohammed none Salim, 06 Feb 09:03 pm
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They too have their own importance
Answered by Manju Sikri, 07 Feb 07:38 am

 
  
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Only 0.5 per cent of the population in India are aware of e mail.The rest of india is familiar with the post card and money order.
Answered by GAUTAM MOOKERJEE, 07 Feb 07:24 am

 
  
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Cant tell u the exact reason but have experienced that whenever i go to post office i have to stand in a queue
and the post office i visit has six counters to attend to customers. yet it is always full of people
Answered by iqbal seth, 07 Feb 06:00 am

 
  
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119749712 people use internet in india. it is 10.07% of total population of india. (2011 survey)
and india is third highest no. of internet users in the world. so 90% of indian population use post office. very good scope yet.
Answered by rajeev yadav, 07 Feb 12:20 am

 
  
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Till we have people in rural India, which does not have electricity, which does not have net connections, and which does not have literate people, till then we need post offices and post men.. We sitting beforer computers do not even imagine how people live in the rural India...
Answered by Aditya Misra, 06 Feb 10:42 pm

 
  
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They should start parcel service in a big way !!
Answered by ajit kulkarni, 06 Feb 10:32 pm

 
  
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The need to move along with the times. They can delver e mails to those persons who are not cyber savvy
Answered by Vikram, 06 Feb 10:00 pm

 
  
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Since,the P&T Deptt. has not updated the working of the Deptt., courier service is going to stay !
Answered by virendra gupta, 06 Feb 09:17 pm

 
  
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Other services are there to to make it survive...!
Answered by Dil Se, 06 Feb 09:09 pm

 
  
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There is still work for them like postal savings , vikas patra, and some agencies like life insurance, etc use postal services . they are able to survive better with less work
Answered by tanuja, 06 Feb 09:08 pm

 
  
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