Hi Samir, I'm sure this information would be very useful to a Goanetter in Goa or other parts of India (and many still use the postal system regularly), though it might not be of direct relevance to Goanetters overseas, except for understanding possibilities of items to be sent to them.
By the way, my Goanetter Cafe Prakash friend Soter tells me that he gained quite a bit from an earlier online postal circular I shared with him, about domestic postal rates. He does quite a bit of printed postages, in connection with organisational work. Apparently, some postal staff themselves tend to overcharge, because they are not well informed about the diverse options available. Do you believe that the Indian postal system is dead? It's true that I don't send one-tenth of the 3-7 letters I used to write daily earlier. But I still find the postal system very efficient and fairly inexpensive here, specially if one uses a mix of registered post/speed post. Btw, one of the photographs taken when I was bored, and awaiting someone at Dabolim, has got a number of hits [http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/379158590/] because it tells the prepaid taxi-rates from Dabolim to a number of villages in Goa. Of course, taxis and postal rates cannot be compared. But information is information, and you never know whom it might be useful to. Curious, in turn, to know why you raised the query :-) Regards, FN 2009/10/26 Samir Kelekar <samir_kele...@yahoo.com>: > Re: postage rate posts from FN, > Are such postage rate posts relevant at all to the Goanet readership/ > Just curious. > > regards, > Samir -- Frederick Noronha :: +91-832-2409490 Writing, editing, alt.publishing, photography, journalism Books from Goa: http://tiny.cc/goabooks