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Faridkot, a state in the Punjab, was the second princely state to sign a postal convention with the Post Office of India and the smallest of all the Punjabi convention states. Predominantly agricultural it had an area of 634 square miles (1,600 km 2 ) and population of just 115,040 in 1898.
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]
The Post Office Act of 1837 granted the government the exclusive right to transport letters within the East India Company’s territories. In 1852, India became the first Asian country to issue its own postage stamps with the introduction of the “Scinde Dawk” in the Sindh district, a circular stamp created as part of postal reforms led by ...
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.
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.
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 ...
75 Years of 1 Central Base Post Office 5.00 10 14 March 2023 75 Years of India – Luxembourg Friendship 5.00 11 18 March 2023 International Year of Millets (Shree Anna) 5.00 [17] * 30 March 2023 Legends of Odisha 12 30 March 2023 Akshaya Mohanty: 10.00 13 30 March 2023 Kelucharan Mohapatra: 10.00 14 30 March 2023 Laxmikanta Mohapatra: 10.00 15
The Post Office Bill (2023) was introduced in Rajya Sabha on 10 August 2023 and seek to replace the colonial-era legislation of Indian Post Office Act (1898). [1] The evolution of India Post to include delivery of diverse citizen-centric services through its network has prompted for bringing this new bill in the Parliament.