Srinagar, May 31 (ANI): Department of Posts planned to open a floating post office on the Dal Lake in Srinagar to enhance tourists' influx in the Valley.
John Samuel, Chief Post Master of Jammu and said the post office will work round the week and it will have all the facilities.
"The special feature of this post office is that one will get a special design (special cancellation letter) while posting a letter," he added.
"Inside the post office, we will defiantly be offering special services in attracting the tourists in the form of picture post cards will be made available for them, special stamps will be made available for them, and they can also send letters, parcels and many other services. It will be more or less like a tourist shop where they can buy variety of things," Samuel said.
The locals said this is a good step and will help communication feasible, as most of the times the communication means get disturbed due to bad weather condition.
"Such initiatives should be taken as most of the times telephone lines don't work because of snowfall or bad weather and landline connections get disconnected due to high intensity of wind blow. So, this floating general post office will help us in many ways," said Nadeem.
"It is very necessary as we can find everything in floating here like you get here vegetables, fruits, a market, the only thing which is missing is a post office. So, if we get a post office, it will be very attractive and we will also have more facilities. So, this is a welcome step," said Meenakshi Verma, a tourist.
Department of Posts is also going to inaugurate a post office at Kargil region shortly.
Projects for post offices at the hill stations of Sonamarg and Pahalgam are also in the pipeline and they would be set up in the near future. (ANI)
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