World Post Office Day: Here are some interesting facts about post office.
Today's History: October 9 is marked as World Post Office Day and is celebrated annually to highlight the importance of the day since 1969. Do you know! What does Post office pin code numbers stands for? Well, I'll tell you that later.
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The World Post Office Day marks the anniversary of Universal Postal Union [UPU] which established in the year 1874 in Switzerland. The UPU was the start of global communications revolution. The day was instituted by UPU congress in Tokyo, Japan.
HERE ARE SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT POST OFFICE
• India has the largest number of Post offices in the world.
• India's first and only floating post office is in Srinagar's Dal Lake.
• Vanuatu post runs the world's first underwater Post Office since 2003.
• Farthest distance travelled by a postage stamp is 5,250,843,896 KM to Pluto.
• The longest time between a letter being posted and it's delivery is 89 years.
• The world's first post office was established in Washington, DC., United States.
• India started it's Post Office service in the year 1764 and further the first General Post Office was set up at Chennai following Mumbai and Calcutta (now Kolkata).
• The India post was founded in 1854 by Lord Dalhousie.
• The mailing services were introduced in India by the British.
• The first adhesive postage stamps in Asia were issued in Scinde in July 1852.
• India was the first country in the Commonwealth to issue airmail stamps.
• Kanpur, India has a post office named B N Shukla post office. It is the only post office in India named after an individual person rather than a place.
• Hikkim Postal Office, Himanchal Pradesh is the world’s most astounding Post Office station area at a tallness of 15,500 feet above ocean level.
• Emperor Chandragupta Maurya was the first to introduce a form of postal communication to dispatch confidential reports to distant posts in his empire.
• All Postal Index Number (PIN) beginning with 9 are implied for Indian Army Post Offices.
• Dakshin Gangotri Post Office situated in Antartica is the principal Indian Post office being set outside Indian Territory.
• Indian Postal Department have a sub-office called RLO – Returned Letter Office where all letters which are undelivered or come back to sender are being brought. They also have the power to cease the posted letter.
• The Pin code - The first digit indicates the region; the second digit denotes the sub-region; the third digits indicate a sorting district, and the last three digits indicate the delivery post office.
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