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The Department of Posts connected Tuesday (March 17, 2026) rolled retired 3 premium services, with 24-hour and 48-hour transportation guarantees for urgent and time-sensitive consignments, arsenic it seeks to reinvent itself against a increasing tract of courier services that committedness transportation wrong hours.
Launching the services — 24 Speed Post, 24 Speed Post Parcel, and 48 Speed Post — Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said India Post's gross maturation is encouraging, with a 20% maturation successful the 11 months of FY26.
Initially, these services are being rolled retired successful six cities — Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad — with the extremity of providing nationwide sum by March 2027. The section volition utilise dedicated processing and precedence aerial transport to adhere to transportation timelines.
Mr. Scindia said the motorboat marks a infinitesimal of renewal for India Post and has outlined a monolithic underlying opportunity.
The e-commerce market, helium said, is acceptable to turn to Rs 30 lakh crore by 2030, astir tripling from Rs 11 lakh crore astatine present.
"Today, parcels are lone 5 per cent of our business. But it is our communal nonsubjective that parcel (service) has to go the maturation motor of our enterprise. In the 11 months of this twelvemonth (FY26), the parcel concern has grown by implicit 44 per cent... But we person to propulsion this motor adjacent further. There is nary crushed wherefore we should not go a full-fledged transportation engine," the Minister noted.
The caller offerings volition diagnostic OTP-verified deliveries and broad end-to-end tracking paired with real-time SMS alerts, according to an authoritative statement.
Businesses volition person options of 'Book Now, Pay Later (BNPL)', centralised billing, and API integration. Additionally, escaped pickup for bulk shipments and a money-back guarantee, successful lawsuit of a delayed delivery, volition besides beryllium provided.
