¹[4A.(1) The Post Office shall be the designated national public postal operator responsible for providing the Universal Postal Service all over Bangladesh and for international communications. (2) The Post Office, for the public interest and development of the postal services, may-(a) modify, rearrange or adopt new technologies and provide new services for securing speedy services to the people as it deems fit;(b) appoint agents for providing its services or postal articles to any business entities or companies on agreed terms and conditions;(c) rent out part of post office premises, counters, facilities or any other installations or technology to any business entity or company on agreed terms and conditions;(d) take up any business or agency services permissible under this Act or buy any business facility for the extension or improvement of its own services;(e) enter into new business ventures like Post shops, e-Commerce, Address data base or other data base as it deems fit and can also exchange or interchange business transactions with other domestic or international organisations for the purpose of commercial benefits;(f) provide remittance transfer services, banking services, postal life insurance services either individually or may enter into contract with other organisations for providing the aforesaid services to the people. (3) The Director General may, with the prior approval of the Government, by notification in the official Gazette, fix appropriate commission, fees or charges for appointing agents under clause (b) or for renting out post office premises, counters, facilities etc. under clause (c) of sub-section (2) and also fix rates, tariffs, fees etc. for the services provided by the agents. Explanation : For the purpose of this section “Universal Postal Service” means the basic postal services which the Government has pledged to guarantee all segments of the population on a continuing basis, with a specific, standard of quality at an affordable price.]