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  2. India Post - Wikipedia

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    Since India became independent in 1947, the postal service continues to function on a nationwide basis, providing a variety of services. The structure of the organization has the directorate at its apex; below it are circle offices, regional offices, the superintendent's offices, head post offices, sub-post offices and branch offices.

  3. General Post Office, Chennai - Wikipedia

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    The Chennai GPO is the primary post office of South India and has the Postal Index Number (PIN) 600 001. The GPO handles most of the city's inbound and outbound mail and parcels. Chennai GPO operates from 8:00 am to 8:30 pm from Monday to Saturday.

  4. Postage stamps and postal history of India - Wikipedia

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    The Post Office Act XVII of 1837 provided that the Governor-General of India in Council had the exclusive right of conveying letters by post for hire within the territories of the East India Company. Section XX required all private vessels to carry letters at prescribed rates for postage. [8] A handstamp was applied to preadhesive ship letters. [9]

  5. List of national postal services - Wikipedia

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    Country Company Website Status Afghanistan: Afghan Post: afghanpost.gov.af: Azerbaijan: Azərpoçt: azerpost.az: Bahrain: Bahrain Post: customs.gov.bh: Bangladesh

  6. Parcel post - Wikipedia

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    A Belgian railway parcel stamp used in 1881 at Verviers. The international parcel service, which allowed the orderly shipment of mailed packages and parcels from one country to another according to predetermined rates, was established by the Universal Postal Union on 1 October 1881 (Great Britain, India, The Netherlands and Persia, 1 April 1882), following the agreement of 1880 in Paris during ...

  7. General Post Office, Kolkata - Wikipedia

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    An alley beside the post office was the site of the guardhouse that housed the infamous 1756 Black Hole of Calcutta (1756). The General Post Office was designed in 1864 by Walter B. Grenville (1819-1874), who acted as consulting architect to the government of India from 1863 to 1868. Dalhousie Square, Calcutta in 1910 with GPO in the background

  8. Express mail - Wikipedia

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    Express Mail Service (EMS) service logo. Express Mail Service (EMS) is an international express postal service offered by postal-administration members of the Universal Postal Union (UPU).

  9. Army Postal Service (India) - Wikipedia

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    The Army Postal Service (APS) functions as a government-operated military mail system in India.A primary role of Army Postal Service systems is to ensure security form of address in respect of Formations/Units/Troops deployed in Armed Forces and to ensure that military mail between duty stations in India & Abroad are delivered by adopting security form of address (or vice versa).