Real serious, we should do something about it.
With best regards
Amiyo Biswas
Cell: 9433464329
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kotian, H P" <hpkot...@rbi.org.in>
To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2018 10:21 AM
Subject: [AI] Registered Posting of Articles/Literature for the Blind and
Surcharge on the same.
Hi
Any Braille users especially who get / send Braille books overseas, do you
face similar problem, pl revert.
Regards
Harish Kotian
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Marita Cardoz
<cardozmar...@gmail.com><mailto:cardozmar...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 13:02:00 +0530
Subject: Registered Posting of Articles/Literature for the Blind and
Surcharge on the same.
To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in<mailto:accessindia@accessindia.org.in>
Hi AccessIndians
Under Post & Telegraphs (P&T) Guide Rule 136/137, ‘Literature for the
Blind’ can be Registered Post Free subject to meeting the conditions
mentioned in these Rules e.g. weight limit, surface-mail only, etc.
(earlier the rules were P&T Guide 129/130).
https://www.indiapost.gov.in/VAS/DOP_RTI/PO_Guide_Part-1.pdf
The NAB Talking Book Library in its on-line internet document
www.nabindia.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/TBC_Terms_Conditions.docx<http://www.nabindia.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/TBC_Terms_Conditions.docx>
mentions : “To return the CD/CDs Postage-Free from your local Post
Office, by Registered Post, you need to write “ARTICLES FOR THE BLIND:
REGD. POST FREE UNDER RULE 136/137 P. & T. GUIDE” on the CD
Mailer/Mailers.”
For over 30 years, I (and another VI friend) have been regularly using
this facility for returning the CDs from NAB’s Talking Book Centre as
also returning Braille Books we get from Libraries such as the RNIB
National Library Service, United Kingdom. (UK post is via SEA-MAIL).
This March 2018, when attempting to post the Braille Books as usual we
were shocked to learn that we now have to pay a SURCHARGE. We have
been told that the postal system has just installed a new SOFTWARE
(termed ‘CSI’ ?). This software does not allow the Registration of
the Blind Literature unless a Surcharge is paid.
The postal staff are aware of the P&T Guide Rules 136/137. They are
also aware that we did not have to pay for Braille Literature
registered postage till date. But they are unable to process the
same since the new software does not allow it without the surcharge.
(In my case the surcharge was Rs600).
I have been regularly following up with my local post-office but they
always say the situation has not changed.
I will be lodging a written/on-line complaint to the postal
authorities but it would help to know if anyone else is facing this
issue and has anyone got a solution?
Looking forward to your reply and thanking you in advance for the same.
M. Cardoz (100% VI)
Mumbai
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