Post office guide part i - India Post

(b) Each dispatch of articles should be tendered in separate bundles according to
the value of frank. Along with the last dispatch made on any day, the licensee shall
deliver at the office of posting a daily docket in the prescribed form duly filled in and
signed, under receipt to be obtained at the counter-foil thereon. A separate daily docket
should be submitted for each machine possessed by the licensee. In case, where the
licence has been permitted to post the articles at two offices, the daily docket shall be
submitted to the office where the last dispatch is tendered.
(xii) Allowance will be made for any impression made in error (less deduction of
5 per cent on face value) on surrender of the envelopes or wrappers, provided that the
impression is legible and that the entire envelope or wrapper is produced and that the
claim is preferred within three months of the date of the first impression.
(xiii) An advertisement device may also appear alongside the date stamp
impression provided that :-
1. it relates solely to the businesss or professions of the licensee.
2. it is quite separate from the impressions of the identification mark, license
number and the date stamp and postmark.
3. it is confined to the top left hand corner of the envelope or card.
4. the cost of cutting the dies is met by the licensee.
(xiv) (1) No advertisement device shall appear on the stamping die unless it fulfils
the conditions laid down in the preceding paragraph and has first been approved by the
Head of the Postal Division; (2) the licensee can get approved from the Head of the
Division as many slogans and advertisements as he desires provided not more than one
slogan or advertisement is used on one article; (3) No change in the tenor of the
advertisement shall be made once it is approved, without similar prior consent from the
Head of the Postal Division concerned.
(xv) In the event of a breach of any condition of the licence, the licence will be
forthwith cancelled by the Head of the Postal Circle who will not be responsible for any
loss which the licensee incurs thereby. Any sum that may be due to the licensee on
account of postage advanced will, however, be refunded to him and any sum that may be
due to the Department on account of postage will be recovered from him.
(xvi) The above conditions can be varied, altered or supplemented by the
Director-General, Posts and Telegraphs. This licence shall be subject to such varied,
altered or supplemented conditions with effect from the date of their notification.
11. (ii) Conditions for Hiring the Franking Machine to Government
Offices/Ministries/Departments.
General Conditions :