GDS to MTS Vacancies and Results by Circle: What Has Been Published

There is no all-India number for GDS to MTS vacancies. Each Postal Circle notifies its own exam, prints its own vacancy table, declares its own result and then issues supplementary lists as selected candidates join or fall away. That makes the national picture patchy, and it is why figures quoted without a circle and a date are close to useless. This page collects what circles have actually published, with the date on each, and counts only — no candidate names or roll numbers.

Official circle documents; details and dates in the tables below.

West Bengal’s Annexure II-B lists 44 divisions and units. Seven show no MTS vacancy at all for 2026 (Birbhum, Purulia, Malda, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and the three Regional Offices). The four largest rows are all in or around Kolkata’s mail and sorting network:

Two things stand out. The Railway Mail Service and sorting units carry a large share of MTS work, so a GDS willing to give them a high preference may find more room than in a rural division. And a sizeable block of exam posts sits in offices with no seniority share at all — Kolkata GPO, Central Kolkata, the Circle Office and others — which is why West Bengal’s exam column is larger than its seniority column. Our quota guide works through that arithmetic.

Rajasthan Circle declared the result of the GDS to MTS exam of 12.07.2026 on 21.09.2026, the earliest 2026 MTS result we found in the Department’s document store. It filled 62 vacancies: UR 30, EWS 6, SC 7, ST 6 and OBC 13, with 4 earmarked for PwBD and 2 shown as carried-forward PwBD vacancies. The largest single unit was the RMS ‘J’ Division, Ajmer, with 16. Final answer keys had been posted on 17.09.2026, four days before the result.

The memo then set a tight schedule, which is typical: appointment orders by 23.09.2026, any unconditional refusal to reach the Circle Office by 24.09.2026, and joining by the forenoon of 26.09.2026, with training starting from the date of joining. It adds that requests for re-allotment “will not be entertained in any circumstances”. Allotment followed the Directorate’s letters of 18.10.2023 and 31.10.2023 — the same procedure every circle uses, explained in our merit list guide.

Uttarakhand’s notification of 01.06.2026 said vacancies “will be intimated in due course”. The final figures came on 03.09.2026, almost two months after the paper. For MTS it printed one table, headed as the 50% of vacancies from GDS to MTS through the competitive exam: 20 posts (UR 11, SC 2, ST 0, OBC 2, EWS 5), with horizontal reservation of 8 (VH 3, HH 4, OH 0, Others 1). Dehradun had 6, the RMS ‘DN’ Division 4 and Almora 3. This is worth knowing if your own circle’s notification is silent on numbers: you may sit the exam before you know how many posts it is for.

The pattern is that the Department keeps rolling unfilled posts forward rather than letting them lapse, so a circle’s vacancy figure for any year can include posts from earlier years that went unfilled. The 2024 letter added one warning: posts still unfilled after the 2024 process would be reported to the Staff Selection Commission for open recruitment. We did not find a later letter reporting what happened to them.

We checked the Department’s document store and the West Bengal Circle’s recruitment page on 30.09.2026. Rajasthan’s result of 21.09.2026 was still the only 2026 GDS to MTS result we found. Circles were still in the Postman and Mail Guard stage: West Bengal scheduled its DEST on 23.09.2026 and 24-26.09.2026 (notices dated 21.09.2026 and 22.09.2026), and Uttar Pradesh published its DEST shortlist for Postman and Mail Guard in September, together with a list of candidates whose OMR sheets were rejected by the evaluating software for wrongly filled roll numbers. Because the Postman appointments are completed before any MTS appointment (see our merit list guide), MTS results in those circles are likely to follow the Postman lists — that is our inference from the procedure, not a date anyone has announced.