India Post or Indian Postal Service is the biggest public serving organization in the whole world.

With 155,333 post offices all over India, they are the most widely distributed post office system in the world. The large numbers are a result of a long tradition of many disparate postal systems which were unified in the Indian Union post-Independence. Owing to this far-flung reach and its presence in remote areas, the Indian postal service is still the best service favored over new courier system.

Their Express Mail Service, or EMS, is offered for providing time-bound and express delivery of letters, documents and parcels across the nation. It links more than 1200 towns in India, with 290 centres in the national network and around 1000 centres in the state network. For regular users, Speed Post provides delivery ‘anywhere in India’ under contractual service.

Now we can track the status of our Speed post / express parcel online on their website giving the real time data about the parcel. You just need to enter the unique number to fetch the details.

Visit their Speed Net Tracking system

Guidelines for providing the article number are:

1. Article Number should contain 13 characters. For example, article number should be of  the form “EEXXXXXXXXXIN”
2. Article Number should start with “E” letter only
3. Article Number should end with “IN” letters only

For e.g. Ed929185901IN

You can also provide them your email id such that when the item is delivered, you would be e-mailed the status too.

To just track the movement, you may want to provide the article number to their movement tracking system here: services.ptcmysore.gov.in/Speednettracking/track2.htm to fetch results something like the following:

Hope the information is helpful.

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