Post office guide part i - India Post

(bbb) Secretary, Oil and Natural Gas Commission, Dehradun.
(ccc) State Khadi and Village Industries Board, Madras.
(ddd) The Director of the Indian school of Mines, Dhanbad.
201. Local Fund Officials.- Correspondence sent by an officer of a local authority or by an
officer of the Government acting in a capacity connected with local authority, such as the President
or Secretary of a Local Fund Committee, is not deemed official Correspondence within the
meaning of these rules and may not be superscribed as “On India Government Service”. But
nothing in this clause is held to prevent the transmission on India Government Service of
correspondence sent by an officer of the Government acting as such, although the correspondence
may relate to the affairs of a local authority.
ILLUSTRATION : The Commissioner of a Division writing in that capacity to the Secretary of Local
Fund Committee concerning its affairs may superscribe the letter “On India Government Service”.
202. Procedure, if ordinary stamps are used for service stamps. – The Postage and
other charges (if any) – on an official article, can be properly prepaid only by a proper service
stamp or stamps or by a proper impression or impressions of stamping machines. Where,
however, an ordinary postage stamp instead of a service stamp is used on an official postal article,
the article will be recognized as an official postal article by the Post Office; but the irregularity
will be brought by the Officer-in-charge of the post office at which the article was so posted to the
notice of the officer concerned; and, if of frequent occurrence, to the head of the Circle.
203. Letter, etc., from Government Officers to private person and VICE-VERSA. –
(1) Letters, postcards and packets posted by officers of the Government in their official capacity,
addressed to private individuals or associations, will, even when they relate to the private interests
and concerns of the individuals or associations addressed, be sent as official postal articles, prepaid
in the usual way.
Exceptions : Noting in this sub-rule affect (a) the practice of the Law Court in regard to
the dispatch of certified copies, to persons who do not appear to take them personally and of
documents filed in judicial cases the return of which has been applied for, or (b) the dispatch of
packets containing books or publications purchases from Government. Such documents, books or
Service Unpaid
To,
A.B.
From CALCUTTA
C.D.,
Commissioner
Gorakhpur
273001.
publications may be posted by the judicial or other Government offices
concerned in covers superscribed “Service Unpaid” and covers so
superscribed will be charged, on delivery, with postage at the rate to which
they would have been liable if the postage had been prepaid. All articles so
posted will be endorsed under the full signature and official designation of
the sender, according to the specimen given on the margin.