Weekly Holidays - 7th May 1950

The Government of India decided that a weekly off should be given to every P & T employee to give rest and relaxation to them, vide Postal Notice No.10 dated 26th April 1950. In order to implement this decision the following arrangements were made.

All post offices in India would remain close from 7th May 1950 and there would be no clearance of letter boxes or delivery of mails on Sundays. Letter Mails on which late fee was paid, could be posted in letter boxes at RMS office or RMS running sections or in special letter boxes placed at selected Telegraph Offices and Combined Offices at District Head Quarters.
Express delivery letters would be delivered directly through Telegraph Offices on all days including Sundays, with effect from 1st May 1950. But Express Delivery Service would not be available in respect of articles addressed to post boxes from 1st May 1950 because, such articles would be received for delivery direct in Telegraph Offices from that date.
Express Delivery articles would not be redirected by Telegraph Offices in accordance with delivery instructions left by the members of the public. Undelivered letters would be handed over to the Post Offices for redirection or disposal in other ways.
All Combined Offices which are delivery offices for telegrams would remain open for a limited period on Sundays.
All RMS offices and those Telegraph Offices which would be kept open would sell stamps and postal stationery on Sundays.

The exchange of mail between post offices, RMS sections and Mail Offices would continue till further orders. Late fee articles, forward mails and mails closed the previous evening would also be despatched, whenever ordered by Head of Circles.

The Clause 13A of Section I of P & T Guide of 1951 deals with posting of letters on Sunday. It clearly mentions that a letter will be despatched on Sundays, provided it is prepaid with postage and late fee and posted during specified hours in special letter boxes in Departmental Telegraph Offices, selected Combined Offices and RMS offices or in the van letter boxes of RMS sections. It further states that Registered Newspapers or packets of registered newspapers are accepted on Sundays without the payment of a late fee in Press Sorting Offices and in RMS offices. It also states that selected post offices are open on Sundays and conduct all post office business without late fee as on week days except booking of Money Orders, Saving Bank and sale of NSC. The Clause 2A of Section I of P & T Guide gives the list of such post offices which is as follows:
Ahmedabad Railwaypura TSO (Ahmedabad), Banaras H.O. (Banaras), Barabazar TSO (Calcutta), Chandi Chowk TSO (Delhi), Dadar TSO (Bombay), Eastern Court S.O. (New Delhi), Esplande S.O. (Calcutta), GPO (Bombay), GPO (Madras), Hyderabad H.O. (Hyderabad Dn.), Indore City TSO (Indore), Jaipur City TSO (Jaipur), Kalbadevi TSO (Bombay), Kanpur H.O. (Kanpur), Mount Road TSO (Madras), Rasbehari Avenue TSO (Calcutta), Sholapur H.O. (Sholapur) and Shyambazar TSO (Calcutta).

These postoffices were kept open on Sundays between 8.30 AM and 8.30 PM.

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