INDIA POST RULES FOR BRANCH OFFICES
RULES FOR BRANCH POST OFFICES IN INDIA – WHAT A BRANCH POSTMASTER SHOULD DO / SHOULD NOT DO / SHOULD NOT FAIL TO DO is listed in the BO Rule Book PDF.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
RULES FOR BRANCH OFFICES
CHAPTER I
MISCELLANEOUS RULES
RULES PAGE
- Functions of a branch office
- Relations of a branch office with other offices
- Responsibility for losses
- Work on Sundays and Post Office Holidays
- Notice of hours of business
- Courtesy towards the public
- Village sorting lists and route lists and beat maps
- Due mail and sorting lists
- Supervision of delivery staff
- Responsibility for correct delivery of articles and payment of money orders
- Custody of cash
- Spoiled currency notes
- Stock of postage stamps
- Postcards of private manufacture
- Exchange of Reply coupons with postage stamps
- Spoilt or defaced postage stamps
- Previously used, forged or counterfeit stamps and misused service stamps
- Foreign postage stamps not recognised in payment of postage on correspondence
posted. - Stamps and seals
- Book of Postmarks
- Books and forms and their preservation
- Book of receipts
- Stock
- Supply of guides and books of blank forms of Inland V.P. Money Orders etc., for sale
- Supply of the Posts and Telegraphs Pocket Guide in Regional languages
- Information not to be made public
- Production of records before courts
- Production of records before the police or an Excise Officer
- Treatment of articles the importation of which is prohibited and of articles liable
To customs duty - Treatment of articles found to contain coin etc.
- Treatment of articles containing goods the export of which is specially prohibited
- Distribution of advertisements etc., on behalf of the public prohibited
- Fascimile impression of signature to be accepted as signature in certain cases
- Thumb-impression of illiterate person
- Postage stamps, coins and other articles of value found in a letter box or on a post
Office counter - Error book
- Important irregularities to be reported at once.
37-A Suggestion/Complaint Book. - Correspondence
- Ink for correspondence
- Mobilisation notices and notices to reservists
- Payment of subsistence advance to army reservists
- Post office order book
- Correction slips
- Branch office circulars
- Half-yearly enumeration returns
- Yearly village returns
- Deleted
- Employment of extra-departmental delivery agents
- Security furnished in the form of a personal bond.
- Leave applications from extra-departmental branch postmasters and delivery agents
- Contagious, infectious and repulsive diseases and ailments to be reported
51-A. Payment of PLI policy Premium
51-B. Deleted
51-C. Deleted