15 Interesting Facts about Indian Post Office

15 Interesting Facts about Indian Post Office

India has the world’s largest postal network with more than 1.5 Lac post offices across India. An Average of 7175 population is being served through a single post office. Indian Post has a history of 200+ years. It came into existence in April, 1744. We are presenting over here 15 Interesting facts about Indian Post Office which you have not heard off.

Unlike other major government departments of India, Department of Posts doesn’t have a separate ministry defined for itself. All its functioning comes under Ministry of Communication and Information Technology.

Chandragupta Maurya was the First Indian Emperor to be depicted on an Indian Postal Stamp.

Travancore State (An Ancient Indian State) has a postal service of its own named Anchal.

Hikkim Postal Office, Himanchal Pradesh is the world’s highest post office location at a height of 15,500 feet above sea level.

All Postal Index Number (PIN’s) starting with 9 are meant for Indian Army Post Offices.

Indian Postal Department have a sub-department called RLO – Returned Letter Office where all letters which are undelivered or returned to sender are being brought.

The delivery of a letter you have posted can be stopped under a service of Indian Postal Department called Recall of Postal Article.

There are total of 19101 PIN CODES in India and 154725 Post Offices Across India

Indian Post Office Employees more than 4.5 Lac people across India.

First floating Post Office of India was inaugurated in August, 2011 in Dal Lake, Srinagar

First Post Office with only women employees was opened up in Delhi in March, 2013

Dakshin Gangotri Post Office located in Antartica was the first Indian Post office being setup outside Indian Territory in the year 1983.

India became the member of Universal Postal Union in the year 1876.

The first efficient postal system in India existed in 14th Century and it came to its height during 16th Century under Mughal Emperor Akbar.

A letter is charged double the deficiency if it is posted without postage and the amount will be collected from the addressee if he agrees to pay or else it would be collected from the Sender (only in case if he can be traced back).

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