India Post — returning revenue stamps in place of change

Address: Pune, Maharashtra

I visited a post office in pune for sending a registered post. The cost of the article was rs 57. Realizing that the clerk would crib if i had over 100 rs note, for change, i literally gave 60 rs cash.

I was expecting 3 rs back but what i got was 3 revenue stamps of rs 1 each. Later i waited at the counter and saw that for every 2 – 3 rs change instead of returning the actual cash the clerk was giving back revenue stamps to all other people too.

This is just unfair. You cannot return other object of same amount in place of cash. I can understand a 1 in a 100 event where they might run out of cash but this looked like a deliberate plan to return revenue stamps in place of cash. I tried to contact post master but he/she was unavailable at that time.