Mysore/Mysuru: An Accident Insurance scheme of Post Office offers Rs. 10 lakh compensation for the nominee in case of accidental death of the insured at Rs. 520 premium and the public should make use of this scheme, said Govindaraju, the Superintendent of Post Offices Nanjangud Division. He said that in June 2023, Ravi, husband of…
Rabid dog keeps postal staff on tenterhooks
June 8, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: A rabid dog kept the staff of Post Office in Jayalakshmipuram in the city waiting for two hours to resume their duty, with anxiety writ large on their faces yesterday. It was only after the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) personnel caught hold of the canine, that the postal staff heaved a sigh of relief…
Postmen to provide Life Certificate to pensioners at doorstep
November 19, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: In a relief to pensioners, Postmen will now provide doorstep service to pensioners for submitting their Life Certificates. In general, all pensioners are required to submit Jeevan Pramaan Patra (Life Certificate) every year in the month of November to continue withdrawal of pension. Till recently, all pensioners had to visit their banks in November…
New Year Greetings thru snail-mail
February 28, 2019Even as the letters in the Letter Boxes are dropping by a whopping 50 per cent, here is an encouraging development that one of Star of Mysore readers Kitty Mandana shares regarding the New Year greetings that she almost decided to stop sending to her family and friends, which she had been doing for the…
India Post ‘Letter Box’ seeing red as letter posting drops by 50 per cent
February 28, 2019SMS, Internet, WhatsApp hit oldest form of exchanging news By Rajkumar Bhavasar There was a time when there was a particular style of writing letters to one’s parents beginning with the words: ‘Respected father and mother, My deepest pranams to both of you, hope you are all well at your end, I am fine here…
Postal employee feted for his services
February 23, 2018Mahadevappa, a Mail Overseer at K.R. Nagar Post Office, who retired on superannuation on Jan.31 was felicitated by Lokesh, Inspector of Post at a function organised by Postal Staff Quarters Welfare Association recently as P. Shantha Raje Urs, Postal Marketing Executive, Mysore Division and Hon. President of Mysore Postal Quarters Welfare Association and others look…
Aadhaar/PAN/ Mobile Phone No. linking must for Postal deposits
October 12, 2017Mysuru: The Post Offices have launched a special drive this month to link Post Office Savings Bank account with Aadhaar/PAN/Mobile phone number. Post Office customers, who hold Post Office Savings Banks account, should visit their Post Office and produce Aadhaar card/ PAN card/ mobile phone number for linking the same with their account, according to…
Shortage of post-boxes in Hinkal area
August 24, 2017Sir, Hinkal, a small village on the outskirts of Mysuru long time back, has now developed into a small township with lot of commercial activities and a large number of residential buildings. The population of Hinkal, which was a few thousands a couple of decades back, has now a population of about two lakh, plus…
Public grievance on postal service
July 4, 2017Sir, Post Offices are invariably the preferred destination for secure investments of small savings of government employees — serving and retired — as well as the general public. But for the past several weeks, Post Offices (PO) are facing acute shortage of passbooks, resulting in hardships for customers wishing to open accounts. In such an…
Shift to friendly Post Office for better banking facilities
May 19, 2017Mysuru: The public and private sector banks insisting on a minimum balance of Rs. 5,000 is causing concern for the common man whose salary could be a minimum of Rs. 10,000 or less. The question that the ordinary man is asking is, how we can survive in these days of inflation and the rising costs…
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