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SOP - Franking Machine
SOP - Franking Machine
SOP - Franking Machine
Ministry of Communications/IT
Department of Posts
Oak Bhawan , Sansad Marg ,
New Delhi-110116 .
To
All Chief Postmasters General,
All Regional Postmasters General,
Director Postal Staff College, Ghaziabad,
Directorate General or APS,
Directors Postal Training Centers.
(i) Only India Specific models of Franking Machines with inkjet printing
technology approved by the Directorate will be used. Each franking
machine shall have a unique number in the format X123456 where 'X'
denotes the initials of the original Equipment Manufacturer i.e. ' F' for
Francotyp Postalia, 'N' for Neopost and 'P' for Pitney Bowes and six
numeric digits indicate serial number of the machine.
(iii) The amount for uploading the credit in the franking machines may
be deposited in any branch of State Bank of India through net banking or
at any post office having e-payment facility through cash/account payee
cheque/draft: Information of credits will be routed to the central server of
the Department of Posts daily.
(iv) Each manufacturer of franking machines will have its own centrally
located "Remotely Managed Franking Server" In India catering to the
network of all its franking machines installed throughout India. All RMF s
server will dial Department of Posts server three times every day
for exchanging information on funds deposited , funds downloaded and
uploading of reports etc in respect of their franking machines .
(vi) Each machine have to necessarily dial its RMFS sever at least
once in thirty days even if no uploading of credit Is required otherwise
machines will be automatically blocked and will function only after
dialing RMFS sever.
(viii) Frank impression shall be in blue color and will indicate class of
article, pin code, authentication code, date of frank, mail item number,
license identifier number, frank value and 20 bar code.
(3) Migration plan for phasing out the electronic franking machines to be
replaced by Remotely Managed Franking System is as follows :-
4. This may be brought into the notice of all concerned for information
and necessary action.
(Niraj Kumar)
Director (PO&I )
Copy to;-
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All recognized unions/associations.
M/s.Pitney Bowes, M/s.Neopost.
Dy. General Manager, State Bank of India, Govt. Accounts
Department, National Banking Group, s" Floor, Global IT Centre,
Sector-II, CBD Belap8r, Navi Mumbai-400 614