Postcards rejected by Ahmedabad Post Offices

 

Postcards rejected by Ahmedabad Post Offices

 

I am sharing here some postcards and covers shared by Mr Shrikant Parikh an active post crosser. from Ahmedabad.  These postcards and envelopes were sent by him to overseas postcrossers. The standard airmail rate from India to any country for the International Postcard is Rs 15. But he put stamps of Rs 25 for the postage on the postcards. It is surprising to note that the Post office rejected the postcards and send them back to the sender. It happened in 2 post offices ( GPO Ahmedabad and Navrangpura of Ahmedabad. But it is interesting to note that some of the  postcards  which were rejected by Ahmedabad post offices, were recently reposted  from Dehradun and the postcards reached their destinations.

   It seems that the staff appointed at these post offices is untrained and not aware of the international mail. The higher authorities of India Post must look into this matter and take proper action.

The following points are to be noted regarding these rejected Post cards and covers :

1.    All the postcards were sent back to Mr Parikh, without any remark why  were the cards returned as all the postcards had proper postage  required for International Postcard.

 2.     He received back the postcards on which he had fixed his address labels, but many postcards did not reach destination, on which his address labels were not fixed.

In our country there are many postcrossers in different cities and send covers and postcards to philatelists all over the world. But never faced such problem.