India Post Tracking: Sending a Book as VPP
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VPP means Value Payable Post. It’s a service to send goods run by the Indian Postal Service. Here is a link that you can use to read about this service and make the best use of it if you are in India. For authors and publishers, this service is a boon when Amazon, Flipkart and other service providers are not performing up to their best.
Sending a VPP necessitated me to go to the post office. In the past,
when I attempted this service the postmaster told me that I shouldn’t seal the
cover. I had the book covered with good packing material and it was tightly
sealed with duct tape. Following the postmaster’s advice, I removed the duct
tape and placed the book in the cover without sealing it while sending it as
VPP Book Post. The advantage for a Book Post is that it cost a meagre amount on
stamp duty.
Armed with the experience of sending a book post and VPP I went to the
post office this time, excited at the prospect of selling a copy of my book.
The postmaster was busy beyond what I had ever seen in my post office. I waited
for him to finish that work. Two gentlemen were also waiting to get it
finished. The postmaster spoke to them about something that I didn’t
understand. It was the business of the two gentlemen there. I kept my distance
from them while making sure the address on the pack was correct.
When my turn came, the postmaster asked me to also write the
from-address on the cover. In my excited hurry, I had defenestrated the
necessities required by the postal department to carry my message across to the
other person. So I filled the from-address and waited. He asked me to seal the
cover, pointing towards a bottle of gum.
I confirmed the instruction by asking him a second time, “should I seal
the cover?”
“Yes, you should,” he said.
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