It refers to RTI response revealing fourteen postal-services causing
extra-ordinary heavy loss to postal-department with many of some
services not being much used. A post-card worth just 50 paise costs
rupees 7.18 to postal-department while not-so-much used and outdated
Inland-Letter-Card priced at rupees 2.50 also costs department rupees
7.18. Significantly postal-department bears maximum loss on mailing
registered newspapers at just 25 paise but costing the department rupees
10.59.With 25-coins discontinued and 50-paise coins virtually
disappeared from circulation, minimum postal-tariff should be rupee one
especially at a time when even beggars refuse to accept coins below
rupee one.
Postal-department should discontinue Inland-Letter-Cards, and should
have only sponsored ?Meghdoot? post-cards priced at rupee one with a
part of subsidised cost coming from those having advertisements on the
sponsored post-cards. An ordinary commoner may be using just one or two
post-cards a month, but the heavy subsidy-bill costs much more
indirectly in terms of fiscal-deficit or additional taxes on other
commodities to meet heavy postal-subsidy.
All inland postal-tariffs (other than post cards and registered
newspapers) including Speed Post tariffs should be fixed in multiples of
rupees five while foreign-mail tariffs in multiples of rupees 20.
Department of Post should approach Department of Revenue with plea to
treat all postal-services equally in regard of levying service tax by
abolishing service-tax on select postal-services like Speed Post.
Air and Surface (sea) mail tariffs for foreign mail should be fixed
independently for equal tariff-rise for every 20 gms additional
weight-slab for air-mail tariffs abolishing present system of levying
air-surcharge on surface (sea) mail tariffs.
Likewise Surface (sea) mail tariffs for foreign mail can be fixed for
equal tariff-rise for every 20 gms additional weight-slab. All this will
enable postal-department issuing commemorative stamps only in two
denominations of rupees five and twenty.
source :http://www.merinews.com/
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