In such case I would make insurance against delay and before giving the post office, specially when I know it is already in dead limit would call the place one day before and check f it reached or not, else even fly to submit another set of document.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 6:06 PM > To: Rajib Das > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Snail Mail: Postal Department, India > > > [ From: Rajib Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] > [ Date: Aug 30, 2002 07:04 (-0000) ] > > > Does the postal department in your home country take > > the responsibility of ensuring delivery of your > > normal mail? As in provide a GUARANTEE? A service > > An emphatic NO. The postal department of any country, in their > right minds, would not "guarantee" the delivery of mail. > Keeping that in mind that, if you had an urgent and important > document to be sent, what would you do ? Turn to some such > service which can provide a guarantee of sorts as far as the time > of delivery is concerned, would you not ? I would presume that > this is exactly why, as you mentioned, you would think of Fedex. > > And so, coming back to the case at hand, they, just as you would, > did send it through a service, which for all its claims, is a > service that can be construed to be something like Fedex. As you > would think of Fedex as the first thing when you have to send > something urgently, some people in India can be forgiven for > thinking of "Speedpost" in a similar manner. And, as far as I > remember (that was 10 years back), it did claim to be able to > deliver your mail anywhere in India within 3 working days. And > you do pay a price for it - I remember paying INR 150 to > "Speedpost" a document (that was 10 years back). > > With that in mind, if you were to send an important document via > Fedex and had a similar result, what would you do ? I guess then > the normal thing would be for you to ask for compensation from > Fedex, notwithstanding the fact that Fedex would have probably > made you sign off on an agreement form to the effect that they > would only expend "all reasonable means" to deliver your document > on time, unless of course you have insured your document. But, > your case will have some ground in a court because you can argue > that you have used the "Fedex-like" service and NOT the normal > mail primarily because of the service's claims and that in doing > so you have been misled, because had it not been for it's claims, > you would have filled up your forms way ahead of the deadline > knowing jolly well that normal post would take a much longer > time. > > Having said that, I agree with your other points and I do NOT > subscribe to the hypotheses that this is yet another classic case > of step-motherly treatment for Assam and that there is a > conspiracy at play. > > /amlan. > >
