POSTAL HISTORY

 

World Postal History

1840	May 06: First Postage Stamp in the world Penny Black issued
1874	October 09: GPU (General Postal Union, the association before
	introduction of UPU) was established in Berne
1994	e-mail was introduced

POSTAL HISTORY

16th Cen	Mughal Emperor Akbar (Regime 1556-1605 AD) is credited with  organising an efficient system of despatch using horses and camels
1672	South Indian Ruler Raja Chikkadeva of Mysore organised a regular
	postal service throughout his dominion.
1688	First Post Office established in India by the British East India
	Company- Only official mail were transacted.
1766	Robert Clive sets up Regular Postal System.
1774	The services of the Post Office were extended to private mails (on
	payment of postage) by Warren Hastings.
1774	Calcutta GPO was established. First PMG took charge in Calcutta.
1786	Madras GPO was established
1794	Bombay GPO was established
1796	Zamindari Dak lines established
1820	J&K Postal Services came into existence
1830	Bombay Code Regulation XI suppresses "Private Dawks"
1852	Scinde Dawks, the first indian paper stamp introduced by
	Sir Bartle Frere, Commissioner of Scind
1853	The Telegraph Department came into existence
1853	Overseas Mail Service started
1854	October 01: First Postage Stamp in India was issued
1860	Postal Manuals were published
1863	Railway mail Sorting was introduced
1867	Field Post Office (FPO) Organised
1873	First Embossed Envelope introduced
1876	India became a member in GPU (earlier form of UPU)
1877	Value Payable/Parcel/Insurance services were introduced
1879	Postcard was introduced
1880	Moneyorder service came into existence
1882	Savings Bank Deposit scheme was introduced
1884	Postal Life Insurance Scheme was started
1914	The departments of Posts and Telegraph merged as P&T Department
1935	IPOs introduced
1947	November 21: First Stamp in Independent India issued ('National Flag')
1948	August 15: Issued stamps on Gandhiji
1953	P&T Department introduced Hindi as the Official Language
1957	November 14: first Children's Day Stamps issued (three stamps)
1959	DLO name changed to RLO
1959	PRSS introduced
1961	July 01: Kerala Postal Circle formation.
1972	August 15: Postal Index Number (PIN) introduced in   India
1972	Sanchayika system introduced
1972	MPKBY system introduced
1975	QMS introduced
1994	Express MO, Postal Metro Channel, Rajadhani Channel introduced
2002	May 13: First embossed Postage Stamp issued
	("Parliament Golden Jubilee" 1952-2002)
2003	Bill Mail Service was introduced
2004	ePost was introduced
2005	Logistic Post, Direct Post were introduced
2006	instant Money Order (iMO) was introduced

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COUNTER MDB FILE CORRUPTED-SOLUTION

 Error: While Logging point of sale if you  got a error "Counter access database seems to be corrupted, please logout from all terminals so the application can recover required information"

Solution:  Open Point of sale server folder..take a backup of COUNTER.MDB AND SafeCounter.mdb to a safe place.

Delete Counter.mdb from point of sale folder, Rename SafeCounter.mdb to COUNTER.MDB

           Paste Safecounter.mdb from that folder where we have took a backup.

IMO LOGIN ERROR

While trying to login in to the IMO Website using the user id and password if an error is coming as shown in

 the screenshot,here is the solution to solve the error

1.Click on Tools in the internet explorer and select internet options

2.Select the option security and click on custom level.then enable all activex controls

This will solve the error

Creating Maintenance Plans in SQL Server 2008 R2

 

One of the repetitive task that DBA need to perform is create maintenance plan for database. Maintenance plans enables you to automate maintenance activities for a database, backups, db integrity checks and index maintenance tasks. We can easily create a maintenance plan using a wizard in sql server 2008 R2.

You can use the following steps to create a maintenance plan
1. Select the Maintenance Plan Wizard from the context menu as shown below


2. You can specify a name and description for the plan and select the desired scheduling options

3. Select next to see the maintenance tasks that you want to perform 

4. Select the Maintenance tasks order 

5. Select the database for the backup task. 

5. Select the reporting option for the plan like write log to a specific location or send an email or both.

6. Click finish to create your plan , while the plan is being created you will get the following status dialogue

7. You can see the created maintenance plan in object explorer

when you double click the Backup Plan from above window, you can get the designer


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Repair corrupted and damaged files with File Repair

 

It may have happened at times that you find that you are unable to extract the contents of a compressed file , due to it being damaged or corrupted. At times like these freeware File Repair could be a real life saver.

File Repair is a freeware tool that lets you repair corrupt Word, Compressed Image, Video, Music. PDF files easily on your Windows computer.

It can repair the following types of files:

• Word documents (.doc, .docx, .docm, .rtf)
• Excel spreadsheets (.xls, .xla, .xlsx)
• Access databases (.mdb, .mde, .accdb, .accde)
• PowerPoint presentations (.ppt, .pps, .pptx)
• Zip or RAR archives (.zip, .rar)
• PDF files (.pdf)
• Video files (.avi, .mp4, .mov, .flv, .wmv, .asf, .mpg)
• Music files (.mp3, .wav)
• Image files (.jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .tiff, .bmp, .png)

File Repair can repair the following types of errors:

• Unable to read file
• File cannot be accessed
• File is not in a recognizable format
• Application or software cannot open the type of file represented by file-name
• Out of memory or Low system resources errors.

It will repair files which may have got damaged due to the following possible reasons: corrupted due to:

• Malware infection
• Sudden Power failure
• Network interruption
• Software errors

Head over to its home page to download this app:  Download 

Source : http://www.thewindowsclub.com/