The postal cash card service has been able to attract the clients within one year after it was launched in the region because of easy procedure and cost-effective charges.
Sources in the Sylhet Head Post Office said the cash card service was launched at the post office in the beginning of 2012-13 financial year.The authorities concerned also launched the service at 90 sub-post offices of the district from July this year as the service gained popular among the common people, the sources said.
SHPO assistant postmaster Sayed Ahmed told New Age that the function of the postal cash card was like a debit card of any bank in the country.
‘An adult person can open an account buying a postal cash card for Tk 45 only and the card holder is entitled to deposit or withdraw the deposited money from his account using the card,’ he said.
The assistant postmaster added that a card holder is entitled to withdraw a highest amount of Tk 50,000 and lowest Tk 10 from his account at a time and he can be allowed to withdraw money two times per day.
Talking to New Age, officials of the Sylhet Head Post Office said all kinds of utility bills, including those of electricity, gas and water supply bills, could be paid using a postal cash card.
Another official said the postal cash card holders are allowed to withdraw money from their accounts using the card from the ATM booths of as many as 26 public and private-run banks in the country.
‘The authorities do not demand any monthly or yearly charge to a card holder. A client, however, has to pay only from Tk 5 to Tk 10 against each transaction using the card,’ he added.
Sayed Ahmed said New Age that the postal department authorities have a plan to include gradually more facilities to the postal cash card service as part of the plan to expand the activities of the department that have shrunk in the modern technology era.
‘Postal cash card service will become popular rapidly especially among the low and fixed income-group people in the country, if proper campaign is conducted in this regard,’ he observed.
-With New Age input
