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Dalhousie introduced uniform postage rates (universal service) and helped to pass the India Post Office Act 1854 which significantly improved upon 1837 Post Office act which had introduced regular post offices in India. [7] It created the position Director General of Post for the whole country.
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.
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]
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 ...
The Indian Post Office Act (1898) requires Parliament nod for modification of fees charged for all services provided by postal establishments. The Post Office Bill (2023) provides necessary flexibility to the postal department in determining the prices of its services within a highly competitive domestic courier industry and facilitates prompt responsiveness to dynamic market demands.
To resolve the problem with periodicals, the UPU adopted a "threshold" system in 1991 that set separate letter and periodical rates for countries which receive at least 150 tonnes of mail annually. [19] The 1999 Postal Congress established "country-specific" terminal dues for industrialized countries, offering a lower rate to developing countries.
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).
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