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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]
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 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 ...
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.
Eventually they are planning to open a Post Bank of India, an independent banking service. [57] As of 29 February 2016, 18,231 post offices are utilizing Core Banking Solutions (CBS). [58] ATMs are installed at 576 Post Office locations and debit cards issued to Post Office Savings Bank customers. [59]
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
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
Opening of 1,00,000th Post Office at Brahmpur, Chaurasta, Bihar: 15 p 8 17 July 1968 Wheat Revolution 15 p 9 17 September 1968 30th Death Anniversary of Gaganendranath Tagore: 20 p 10 5 October 1968 Birth Centenary of Lakshminath Bezbaruah: 15 p * XIX Olympic Games, Mexico City. (Set of 2 Stamps) 11 12 October 1968 Athlete's legs and Olympic ...