State Get Its First All Women Post Office

4 July 2013
Thiruvananthapuram

The Department of Posts turned the PMG sub-post office into a women-only workplace on Tuesday, making it Kerala’s first all-women post office. The Post Office is entirely operated by women employees and provides all facilities that are available in any other post office. The office will be officially inaugurated on Friday.

The post office has four staff members, including post master Shanthi S, postal assistant Manju R, stamp vendor Chandrika C and sweeper Latha Kumari. The working hours are from 9.30 am to 5.30 am. The office offers traditional and modern services such as registered and Speed Post articles, post office savings bank service, monthly income scheme, e-money order and e-payment of telephone bills. It is, however, a non-delivery post office. It doesn’t distribute letters or parcels and so there is no postman or postwoman in the office.

This is the ninth All-Women Post Office in the country. The first such office in the country was inaugurated at Shastri Bhavan under Delhi Circle on the eve of International Women’s Day on March 8. Replicating this effort, women post offices were started under the Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab and Odisha circles.

Source– http://newindianexpress.com/cities/thiruvananthapuram/Kerala-gets-its-first-all-women-post-office/2013/07/04/article1666558.ece

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