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Delhi Post Offices to Undergo System Upgrade on July 21,2025,Resulting in Temporary Closures

Several Post Offices across Delhi will be temporarily closed on sunday,July 21,2025,as the Department of Posts implements a significant upgrade to its digital platform. This planned downtime is essential to facilitate a seamless and secure transition to an advanced system designed to enhance user experience and service delivery.

The following Post Offices will be closed for public transactions on the specified date: aliganj,Amar Colony,Andrewsganj,C G O Complex,Dargah Sharif,defence Colony,District Court Complex Saket,East Of Kailash Phase I,East Of Kailash,Gautam Nagar,Golf Links,Gulmohar Park,Hari Nagar Ashram,Hazrat nizamuddin,Jungpura,Kasturba Nagar,Krishna Market,Lodi Road,Lajpat Nagar,Malviya Nagar,MMTC-STC Colony,Nehru Nagar,ND South Ext-II,Panchsheel Enclave,Pragati Vihar,Pratap Market,Pushp Vihar,Sadiq Nagar,Safdarjung Air Port,Saket,Sant Nagar,Sarvodya Enclave,South malviya Nagar,Sriniwaspuri,and Jeevan Nagar BO.

The Department of Posts stated that the temporary suspension of services is necessary for critical processes such as data migration, system validations, and configuration. These steps are crucial to ensure the new system, known as the APT application, goes live smoothly and efficiently. The APT application is anticipated to offer an improved user experience, faster service delivery, and a more customer-pleasant interface, aligning with the department’s commitment to modernizing postal operations.

Customers are advised to plan thier visits accordingly and are assured that these measures are being taken to ultimately provide better,faster,and more digitally empowered services.

Frequently Asked Questions Regarding Post Office Services:

Q1.How can I open an account at a Post Office and what are the requirements?
To open an account in Small Savings Schemes such as Savings Account (SB), Recurring Deposit (RD), Time Deposit (TD), Monthly Income Scheme (MIS), or Senior Citizen Savings Scheme (SCSS), you need to complete an Account Opening form (AOF) and submit it along with your KYC documents and a deposit slip (SB 103) at your chosen post Office.

Q2.What are the late payment fees for recurring deposits?
for accounts opened between the 1st and 15th of the month, deposits are due by the 15th. For accounts opened between the 16th and the end of the month, deposits are due by the last day of the month. Failure to deposit the monthly installment results in a default. Defaulted months can be paid subsequently, with a revival fee of re. 1 for each month of default for a Rs.100 denomination. A maximum of four defaults are permitted.

NOS News•Today, 17:23

In the controversial Post Office scandal in the United Kingdom, at least thirteen people have put an end to their lives. At least 59 people have considered that. Around 1000 employees have been prosecuted, all of which have been convicted of a few dozen. Thousands were suspended and in many cases also fired.

This is apparent from a new report drawn up by a committee of inquiry led by the former judge Wyn Williams. The affair, reminiscent of the Dutch allowance scandal, played between 1999 and 2015. The countless employees who were prosecuted were accused of embezzlement or forgery.

Wrongly, it turned out, because in reality there was a computer system that did not function. The management of the Post Office, a state -owned company, and software manufacturer Fujitsu “knew about it, or at least could have known it,” the committee writes.

The computer program was purchased around the turn of the century to keep the turnover of post offices automated throughout the country. When large amounts seemed to be missing, the leadership office holders of blackout accused and forced them to repay money that they had not stolen.

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“Thousands of branch managers from post offices were confronted with inexplicable cast shortages that came to roll out of their accounting system. They were all told: you are the only one with this accounting problem, they had to solve it themselves.

They were wrongly accused of theft and fraud, while it was the accounting system that made mistakes. Many lost their savings, their jobs, their honor. More than 200 ended up in prison. Some committed suicide.

Research shows that the Post Office knew that the system was not right, but continued to litigate. They prefer to stick to the image of an infallible state -owned company than to protect innocent.

This scandal is a story of injustice towards ordinary, hard -working British that were ground by a powerful system. “

That took years. The failing software remained in use all the time, the Total costs for the taxpayer amounted to nearly 700 million euros. It led to the wrongly accused of bankrupt, lost their house, getting the drink or thus even transferred to suicide. Many were looked at by their environment, as well as their family members.

The case only came high on the agenda last year after a dramatized documentary about it had been broadcast on ITV. Mr. Bates vs The Post Office Was based on stories from the victims and led to great public indignation.

Various programs have been rigged for compensation for the victims, but in many cases their implementation is difficult. The British government, the Post Office and Fujitsu will now develop a new system together to meet the victims.

One of those who have committed themselves to the victims’ satisfaction, former post office holder Jo Hamilton, says in a response at the BBC that the report “shows the full extent of the horrors they have exposed to us”.

The Post Office goes through the dust for this “shameful chapter in our history”. “We make unconditional apologies for the suffering that the Post Office has made the branch holders and their loved ones.”

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