
Rationalisation of postal-tariffs not done in Union Budget for the year 2018-19
Presently mail-tariff for post-cards and registered newspapers is decades old and is in paises where coins below rupee one are now totally out of circulation. It is senseless to have mail-tariffs in paise. Sale of post-cards has sharply declined, and mostly extra-ordinary heavy subsidy on post-cards is largely misused by chit-fund companies and other business-houses. Listeners of Akashwani also misuse extra-ordinarily subsidised post-cards to listen their names on radio by sending post-cards indicating ANY SONG as their choice. Production-cost of newspapers has risen multi-folds in last several decades, therefore it is senseless to continue with mail-tariff in paises in name of benefitting small newspapers.
Minimum postal-tariff should be rupee one for postal-articles requiring subsidy ...