Bengaluru/Mumbai, Feb. 2 -- India Post's plan to increase rural penetration by revamping 150,000 rural post offices is expected to boost the e-commerce sector by strengthening logistics and widening opportunities for collaboration with private players like Delhivery and Ecom Express, industry specialists told Mint.

The government's postal service-considered among the widest postal networks in the world-could help e-commerce reach the remotest corners of the country, adding untouched zip codes to the purview of private and public logistics players.

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