INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT INDIAPOST

Responsibilities of post office other than delivery of letters are:

• issue and sale of stamps for the postage purposes
• providing facilities of money orders and postal orders
• providing banking and insurance facilities

Indian postal service has most widely distributed post office system in the world with total of 155,618 post offices and over 566,000 employees. So, postal network of India is the world’s largest postal network. World’s highest post office is situated in Hikkim whose pin code is 172114. Hikkim is the district of Himachal Pradesh, India.  It is located at height of 15,500 feet.
Some other facts about Indian post offices are:

• organized postal system in India started in 1837
• First postal stamp for issued in Karachi in 1852 and first postal department came into existence in 1854.
• Facility of money order was introduced in 1880.
• Post office banking service was started in 1882.
• PIN codes system was introduced in 1972.
• Speed post service came into existence in 1986. This facility was introduces for the people who want to deliver the mail as quickly as possible. This service delivers mail in a definite time frame with money back guarantee for service defect.
• World’s first official flight carrying mails took place only in India on February 18, 1911. This journey took 27 minutes and covered 18 kilometres. This journey was made to support the charity named Holy Trinity Church.

So, the Indian postal department is so great but it is now losing its popularity because of use of advanced technologies like internet. To save the future of post offices we should use its services more and more and also tell its benefits to other people also.