E-retail corporations boost postal Department revenue

E-retail corporations boost postal Department revenue 

With e-commerce platforms more and more turning to the Indian Posts to deliver their orders to customers, the quick flourishing e-retail business has become a revenue generator for the state-run agency, whose ancient operations square measure crumpled by the deep penetration of e-mail and mobile phones. 

Realising the potential, the postal Department has started a passionate e-commerce and parcel process center within the country's industrial hub urban center. 

Spread across 12,000 sq ft, the ability at Parel within the town has bagged smart business in an exceedingly short span, handling around five,000 orders every day. 

The department officers expect at this pace the traffic would before long increase to 10,000 parcels per day. the ability contains a capability to method 30,000 parcels per day. 

Quite a few e-commerce corporations have already approached the department seeking tie-up with India's oldest and most sure National postal facility as well as major players like Amazon, Snapdeal, Flipkart, E-bey, Telebrand Republic of India, TVC network, fast Services and Red Box. 

"The industrial agreement started happening last year and by currently we've got had industrial tie-up with forty six e-commerce corporations in urban center region, seven in Pune and half-dozen in Goa," aforesaid a senior official from the postal Department.