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1. An officer transferred may not without urgent necessity or special orders of the Head of Circle:
(A) leave the station before the arrival of the permanent successor
(B) leave the station till completion of one month from the date of transfer
(C) leave the station till completion of three months from the date of transfer
(D) leave the station till all his pending works are completed at the old station
Ans: (A) leave the station before the arrival of the permanent successor
2. The authority competent to grant casual leave under Rule 99(e) of Postal Manual Volume IV is:
(A) the officer himself
(B) the officer himself where he is not the head of the office
(C) the Head of the Office where the officer is working
(D) the Head of the Circle in all the occasions
Ans: (C) the Head of the Office where the officer is working
3. The period of preservation of APP 45 (Application for leave from Gramin Dak Sevaks) is
(A) 1 year
(B) 2 years
(C) 3 years
(D) 5 years
Ans: (C) 3 years
4. Rule no. of Postal Manual Volume IV says that all officials of Department of Posts are liable to be transferred to any part of India unless otherwise expressly ordered.
(A) 38
(B) 37
(C) 34
(D) 28
Ans: (B) 37
5. Railway Mail Service means the service responsible for carriage of mails by:
(A) rail
(B) Rail and road
(C) rail, road, river
(D) rail, road, river and Air
Ans: (D) rail, road, river and Air
6. Any post office situated on a line of through mail communication and receives and Sorts bags intended for office in advance without opening them is a:
(A) Transit Office
(B) Transit Mail Office
(C) Transit Section
(D) Office of exchange
Ans: (A) Transit Office
7. The number of working hours for which a set of a TMO should work is
(A) 8 hours
(B) 4 hours
(C) 12 hours
(D) depends on requirement of the work and there is no such fixed working hours
Ans: (D) depends on requirement of the work and there is no such fixed working hours
8. An office of exchange in which the work of assessment of customs duty on foreign mails is also carried out is called
(A) office of exchange
(B) inward office of exchange
(C) office of exchange of transit
(D) Foreign Post office
Ans: (D) Foreign Post office
9. The authorized Minimum / Maximum bag balances of UBOs is issued by Divisional superintendents
(A) once in a year
(B) once in two year
(C) once in three year
(D) as and when necessity arises
Ans: (A) once in a year
10. A Sorting Assistant who works in a sorting office over only a portion of its working hours to assist the set is called:
(A) sorting assistant
(B) Subsidiary sorting assistant
(C) Assistant sorting assistant
(D) temporary sorting assistant
Ans: (B) Subsidiary sorting assistant
11. The number of sets of a section are determined by:
(A) distance travelled
(B) Timing of the trains
(C) weekly working hours
(D) daily working hours
Ans: (C) weekly working hours
12. Check slips are designed to fix _____ for the _____ of any article.
(A) responsibility, missending
(B) missending, responsibility
(C) office of posting, missending
(D) responsibility, abstraction
Ans: (A) responsibility, missending
13. The weight of an Airmail bag should not exceed:
(A) 20 Kg
(B) 30 Kg
(C) 35 Kg
(D) 50 Kg
Ans: (B) 30 Kg
14. The registered list sent Inside a registered bag which are prescribed to contain a cash bag must bear following stamp
impressions:
(A) Date stamp and Oblong stamp
(B) Date stamp and name stamp
(C) Date stamp and treasury date stamp / round MO stamp
(D) Treasury date stamp and round MO stamp
Ans: (C) Date stamp and treasury date stamp / round MO stamp
15. Which of the following is not true of a Transit Bag?
(A) It contains several bags inside
(B) it contains a mail list
(C) it is a due bag
(D) it cannot contain Account bags
Ans: (D) it cannot contain Account bags
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