The Department of Posts (Hindi: भारतीय डाक विभाग) functioning under the brand name India Post (Hindi: भारतीय डाक) , is a government operated postal system in India; it is generally referred to within India as "the post office".
The Indian Postal Service, with 155,333 post offices, is the most widely distributed post office system in the world (China is next, with 57,000). The large numbers are a result of a long tradition of many disparate postal...
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The Department of Posts (Hindi: भारतीय डाक विभाग) functioning under the brand name India Post (Hindi: भारतीय डाक) , is a government operated postal system in India; it is generally referred to within India as "the post office".
The Indian Postal Service, with 155,333 post offices, is the most widely distributed post office system in the world (China is next, with 57,000). The large numbers are a result of a long tradition of many disparate postal systems which were unified in the Indian Union post-Independence. Owing to this far-flung reach and its presence in remote areas, the Indian postal service is also involved in other services such as small savings banking and financial services.
Ibn Battuta describes the Indian postal system in the 14th century as follows: In India the postal system is of two kinds. The horsepost, called uluq, is run by royal horses stationed at a distance of every four miles. The foot-post has three stations per mile; it is called dawa, that is one-third of a...
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