Post office guide part i - India Post

personnel of the Defence Services serving in the Army and Air Force, which are to be delivered
through Army Post Offices: -
No.
Rank
Name
Unit
Such mails should be addressed to 56 A.P.O., 99 A.P.O, etc. without the addition of any post town.
28. Mails for Navy Personnel serving in INS Ships – Mail for Navy Personnel on board
I.N.S. ships should be addressed c/o the Fleet Mail Office, Bombay. The No., rank and other
particulars of the addressee, as well as the name of the ship, should be indicated.
29. Articles bearing indefinite addresses – (1) No article will be delivered by the Post
Office unless it bears a definite address. Articles addressed in a general way, i.e., address to a
class of persons in contradiction to a particular person or firm and articles addressed to initials or
figures or to clearly fictitious names, or to a Christian name without a surname, are regarded as not
bearing a definite address unless they are to the care of some definite person or firm, or unless the
address specifies some definite place or delivery such as a particular house or a particular post box
or a particular No. in a street. Articles addressed in a general way or to initials figures. Christian
names without surnames, fictitious names or conventional marks of any kind will not be delivered
if addressed merely to a post office or “Poste Restante” or to the care of a postmaster.
(2) The following are examples of definite and indefinite addresses :-
Definite and therefore Deliverable
(a) The Chief Secretary to the Govt. of H.P.
Ellerelie Simla
(b) The Occupant No. 10 Park Street, Calcutta-
700016.
(c) The President of the Officers’ Mess, Mathura.
(This would be a definite address as there is only
one Officers’ Mess at Mathura).
(d) E-97 Pioneer Press, Lucknow.
(e) Invester No. 2 Victoria Gardens, Bombay-
400027.
Indefinite and therefore undeliverable
(a) Chief Secretary, Shimla
(b) The non-commissioned Officer Meerut.
(c) The President of the Officer’s Mess Delhi.
(This address would be indefinite as Delhi has several
Officer’s Messes).
(d) The Station Master Lalpur, C.R.
(This address could be definite because the Post office
of destination is not given).
(3) Parcels or other articles tendered at a post office for transmission under the
Registration, Insurance, or Value-payable system, as also Money Order, will not be accepted