Thursday, May 18, 2017

    CSI  ROLE OUT  DONE AT HYDERABAD CITY REGION ON 24.04.2017.  The staff experienced / experiencing the following problems :--

TCS- vendor -  CSI rollout for  DOPI  was started in the city division from 24.04.2017.  As it is completely SAP on line based  version experienced the troubles by  staff.  Some of the issues are faced/facing is brought to notice for sharing the solutions.

Problem
How to rectify (solution)
Remarks
1.       Server slow issues
This to be solved by SIFI only

2.       PLI/RPLI figures not effecting in to Treasury.
This is said that user mismatch of Mcmamish and CSI. Even user matched cases also the problem continuing. TCS temporary solution is to made legacy adjustments at Pos.
** one or two occasions the legacy adj. is ok. But daily PLI/RPLI collections the operation of  Legacy adjustments is not correct. This is inconvenient  to the PLI customers.
3.       Pos (point of sale) figures are Jumping (plus and minus) due to net work issues. Results Wrong figures in TCB.
This is to be solved by using T-code_ F-02. Cse(i) : If Pos balance is taken wrong by system as  double entry or more etc.  This has to be adjusted  use Tcode  F-02.

  Doc:Type  SK
  40  DOP 486710010
  50  POS  486710011

Case(ii): If POS balance is less
T code: F-02
Doc: type :SK
40 POS   486710011
50 DOP  486710010
**** USE    :: T-CODE IN SAP (OR) GL VOUCHER POSTING To correct your  TCB.



Check balance using ZFBL3N after execution.


4.       Invalid license  in POS, Back office etc. (Pos & back office not opening)

This is  coming after holiday

C:\ Postal Pos_BO run licsvc.bat then this problem solved
5.       Duplicate
In back office another program is running .

6.       Opening balance/ CB not tallying  issues
Above point 03 apply.

7.       How to Register bulk mailers in POS (prepaid bulk booking, Bulk booking options)
The procedure for registration of  bulk mailers and allotment of regd no. is not familiar to staff.
It involves upload floppy menu but how to register bulk mailer and whom will register is issue.
8.       At Pos coutner: each and every Regd letter booking ACK check up.
This ACK check up for every letter is not required. It has to be modified by TCS
This consumes time.
9.       There is no separate branch like Regd, Speed, Parcel etc. Only Batch1 , Batch2 supplied by TCS. But in post offices there is a branch for Regd, speed, parcel. When articles are invoiced in Batch 1 all articles to be taken in this batch only at the time of Post man returns.
This is not fit with present scenario of Branches. Batches with  Batch01:regd, Batch:01Speed, Batch:01 parcel etc modification required. 

10.   No provision or  CD Letter or Parcel ordinary mail cash.
Such a provision required under treasury Like Miscellaneous receipts head.

11.    How to deliver bulk mailers in DPMS
This facility was not available
This  provision is highly required and staff facing problem while delivery of bulk mail to banks/ Karvey/ Universities / RTI s etc.
12.   In DPMS : Missent / return articles flow to back office are not at a time.
Solution required.  The flow from SAP to back office  for this case is inconvenient to staff
For closing single bag  un necessarily  more bangs are closing by staff.
13.   For non matching of Mccamish in some Post offices  the figures are not reflecting to POS (Point of sale).  Cash adjustments are doing in Sanchay post legacy posting.
For accounting point of view cash is reflecting in TCB.
This should be clarified by TCS/ D.O
14.   T-code: Zfbl3n:  TCB print out is not compatible.

Staff are not in a position to take print out of  TCB.
15.   Clarification required Whether VPMO rebooked  (or) Z-vpmo Upload is enough.

Staff confusing whether to rebook VPMOs (or) not
16.   Transaction reports like, EMOs booking, telephone bills acceptance , emo paid etc required to  be Send to HO (or) not

Clarification required.
17.   No provision for  UCR
Excess cash found in transactions or other credits like black wax fee for PSD,  sale of old stock receipts etc required. This should be provided.

18.   NO provision for UCP
Refund of Tender fee, EMD refunds requires UCP. This should be provided.

19.   In SSL  employees are not correctly attached to their offices.

Some employees names are not appearing under SSL in SAP. No use if tickets are raised to TCS.
20.   Emploees portal; Wrong data entries
Due to wrong data entries of DOB , DOE, DOR, Leave credits, employees not in position to apply leave through this portal
Up to 80% data under this portal is incomplete/wrong entries.
21.   In DPMS the postman beat invoicing is programmed on BATCH based. Due to this Different users working in Same batch  invoiced RL,SP, RP coming to all users under same batch.  And all items can print in  single (or) can print for separate lists for RL, SP, RP etc.  i.e one user data is accessible to other  to take return (or) modify. Rather than BATCH, USER BASED data access required. i.e other user cannot access one users entries.  (those who invoice is responsible to take returns also)

This should be settled by TCS.
22.   Cancellation for VPMO rebooking provision
This provision not provided . Whenever  emo booked with wrong amount then correction of entries only allows. Cancellation not provided.

23.   F&A:- Hyd city Dvn LSG/Gr-I and above postmasters have cheque drawal powers. RBI cqs  drawn and paid to the  customers. This provision is not available .

The vendor should provide such a facility.
24.   Cheque request from HO procedure is cumbersome. More than 30 steps for single cq request.  For want of more cheques request entire time will waste.

This steps should be minimized.
25.   CD letter mail amount  at treasury receive cash from postman issues:- In some case even cash from postman document generated items not reflecting in TCBS.

The generated document nos amount for CD letter mails are not incorporating in TCBs for some cases. Mismatch of  data flow problem should be rectified.
26.   Stamp indent receipt process should be minimized.


27.   In ward / out ward cq clearing process required.

Such a process is not followed at HO. Manual  OSLs posing under GL voucher posting template.
28.   Under GPO the POSB cqs are taken as material stock. Under K’bad such cqs are not taken under material balance.

There is problem of  cq stock deduction under GPO offices.
29.   Clarification sought whether RBI cqs drawn power given to  some offices continues (or) not in CSI

Clarification from DO/TCS required.
30.   NSP1 /NSP2 issues/ low band width etc

SIFI provide solution
31.   UPS/ infrastructure problems
UPS with back up facility required.
5kva  ups  repair which requires replacement of 16 batteries. Whenever power is gone all systems  facing rebooting problems.
32.   At Point of sale some office PIN codes are not accepting. Error message as the sender  city name and  PIN code is mismatch.

Ex: if sender belongs to SNIE PO with pin code: 500018 This PIN code is not accepting . Booking at Pos stopping due to this.





Thursday, May 11, 2017

Post office work flow in CSI

STEP:01

In POS Back Office
PO Begin
Login to POS BO
PO Operation

PO Begin
Received Cash/Stamp Stationary From F and A
Counter Allocation
cash/Stamp Supply to Counter

STEP: 02

In POS
Shift Begin
Accept Allocation
Do the Transactions

STEP: 03

If It is Delivery Office
Login to SAP

Go to DOP Main Screen
GO to LSS
Select Post office
Click on Enter
Click on Shift Open

STEP:04

Go to DPMS

Do the Transactions Like Bag Receiving , Bag Opening, Issue to Postman, Issue eMO ,Cash to Postman
Enter Mis-sent Articles /redirected Articles in DPMS for Despatch
For Despatch of Articles

STEP:05

Login to POS Back office
GO to IPVS
Close Bag
Print Manifest
Despatch Bag
Print Mail List

STEP:06

POS Counter
Balance Transfer to Back Office Supervisor/Treasurer
Approve at Back Office
Do Money Order Approval at Back office Superisor
POS Account Submission
Approve at Back Office Supervisor
POS Shift End
Cash/Stamp Stationary  Send to F and A by Back Office and Make Cash In Hand 0.

STEP:07

In DPMS
Take all types of returns from Postman
Take Cash From Postman
EOD Confirmation of Postman
DO LSS Set Closure Process

STEP:08
Go to POS Back Office
Do PO Account Submission


Do PO End.

Monday, April 24, 2017

“tata”  to  Meghdoot  Modules  &  welcome  to  ‘TATA’   (TCS- CSI) :   Roll out of  Hyderabad city division successful on  24.04.2017.
secretary Posts Sri BV Sudhakar & CMPM T.S Circle.
The  CSI rollout  under Hyderabad city division was  successful .  Many of the offices attended all  type of  transactions and completed their  transactions today .  Due do entire division roll out on single day some of the post offices faced a little bit trouble and resolved by the system admins and  reported that the roll out to CSI is successful. 

Today  Secretary Posts Sri BV Sudhakar  , visited  Hyderabad – GPO at the time of roll out . Some of the photos in c/w  CSI roll out under Hyderabad is shared here with.
CSI roll out at Khairatabad-HO under Hyderabad city 

successful daily account with all transactions at Srinagar colony under Hyderabad city division. 

Transactions booking at Vengalarao nagar at Hyd city division. 

Friday, April 14, 2017


Postal department deficit widens to Rs 11,000 cr.

New Delhi:12.04.17 : Finance Minister Arun Jaitley along with Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha and Secretary of Post Bv Sudhakar releasing commemorative stamp during the launch of pilot branches of India Post Payments in New Delhi on Monday. (PTI).

Deficit of the Department of Posts widened to Rs 11,138.84 crore in February this year on account of wage revision under the 7th Pay Commission. The revenue of the postal department was Rs 10,292.18 crore and expenditure Rs 21,431.02 crore, Communications Minister Manoj Sinha said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.The deficit widened as a result of the implementation of 7th Central Pay Commission recommendations, he said.  In 2015-16, the deficit of DoP was Rs 6,007.18 crore, with revenue receipts totalling Rs 12,939.79 crore and expenditure amounting to Rs 18,946.97 crore. “Department of Posts takes action, from time to time, to induct technology and upgrade the system to cater to the growing market requirements and to increase revenue earnings,” Sinha said.  The department has plans to open 166 new branch post offices and 80 sub post offices during the current financial year, 2017-18.
The DoP has 1,54,802 post offices which include 812 head post offices, 24,566 sub-post offices and 1,29,424 branch post offices. The department has computerised 25,348 post offices till date. PTI PRS SA
"AMBEDKAR JAYANTHI " WISHES TO ALL VIEWERS..

Thursday, April 6, 2017

What does AM, VM, and AD.,stand for in text messages from  India Post, DOP Finacle, Flipkart, Amazon, etc. What is its significance?

Understanding bulk SMS and its regulatory guidelines using AM, VM, AD and other codes for promotional marketing purposes
SMS (Short messaging service) is part of telecom, which is regulated by Government of India. Few years ago, SMS prices were very low, as low as a paisa per SMS or free in some cases leading to SMS flood in the country. Every small, medium or large business uses this tool to communicate their business proposal with their potential customers using a new generation broadcasting tool called Bulk SMS.
This resulted in unwanted messages to mobile users and hence to regulate such unwanted messages or calls TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) has given guidelines to regulate SMS for commercial purpose. With several amendments and guidelines around promotional SMS marketing there have been several changes and rules to govern.
MS is classified as Promotional SMS and Transactional SMS
Promotional SMS:
This is easy to understand, any SMS communication promoting some business sent to any mobile which is not part of NDNC registry in the same category of the business.
Mobile subscribers can register with NDNC with in following categories:
·         Banking / Insurance / Financial products / credit cards
·         Real Estate
·         Education
·         Health
·         Consumer goods and automobiles
·         Communication/Broadcasting/Entertainment/IT
·         Tourism and Leisure
If none of the above categories
As a business, you can only send Promotional SMS messages between 9 AM and 9 PM. All the messages will have a 5 digit numeric sender id prefixed with operator code. Ex LM-16021


Transactional SMS  :
What is the meaning of SMS codes like AM, VM and AD in text messages:
When you receive SMS’s like LM-VODAFONE, TD-AMAZON, MM-FACEBK etc. are messages sent by financial institutions, telecom service providers, social networking sites etc. such institutes have started prefixing these codes like AM, VM, AD and to name some more LM, MM, BT, TA, AD, ID, AT, VK..
Let us brief the significance of these codes:
Such SMS’s are originated from bulk SMS providers and are restricted by TRAI with ‘Sender ID’ of minimum 6 characters.
Three characters to specify the identity of the bulk SMS service provider and its origination, let us illustrate with an example: LM-WAYSMS message heading when received indicates that ‘LM’ loop mobile bulk message has been sent to you from Mumbai. First character specifies which service provider the message is being originated from and the second character specifies the location of the SMS.
The following codes will help you relate your bulk messages:
Service provider codes-
A: Bharti Airtel and Bharti Hexacom
B: BSNL
C: Datacom
D: Aircel and Dishnet Wireless
E: Reliance Telecom
H: HFCL
I: Idea Cellular, Aditya Birla Telecom
L: Loop Telecom and BPL
M: MTNL
P: Spice Communications
R: Reliance Communications
S: S. Tel Ltd
T: Tata Teleservices, Tata Teleservices Maharashtra
U: Unitech Group of Companies (Telenor)
V: Vodafone Group of Companies
W: Swan Telecom
Service Area Codes-
A: Andhra Pradesh
B: Bihar
D: Delhi
E: UP (East)
G: Gujarat
H: Haryana
I: Himachal Pradesh
J: Jammu & Kashmir
K: Kolkata
L: Kerala
M: Mumbai
N: North East
O: Orissa
P: Punjab
R: Rajasthan
S: Assam
T: Tamil Nadu, including Chennai
V: West Bengal
W: UP (West)
X: Karnataka
Y: Madhya Pradesh
Z: Maharashtra
So when you receive SMS from VM-AMAZON, that means they are using Vodafone and sending from Mumbai.


Thursday, March 30, 2017



WEST BENGAL CIRCLE  : POSTMASTER GR-II  PROMOTIONS ONE TIME RELAXATION  ORDERS ISSUED.
  


PROMOTIONS FROM POSTMATER (GRADE-I) TO GRADE (II) ONE TIME RELAXATION  ORDERS ISSUED BY MAHARASHTRA CIRCLE.