Let us tell you that at the time of independence there were 23,344 post offices across the country and out of these 19,184 post offices were in rural areas and 4,160 in urban areas. As on 31 March 2008, there were 1,55,035 post offices across the country, of which 1,39,173 post offices were in rural areas and 15,862 in urban areas, and as a result of this seven-fold development in the postal network, India today has the world's largest postal network. Along with this, there has been a contribution to the expansion of the postal network, especially the introduction of post offices in rural areas.

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At the same time, a post office in its country serves an area of 21.20 sq km and a population of 7174 people. Let us tell you all that there are four categories of post offices in the postal network, which include Head Post Office, Sub Post Office, Additional Departmental Sub Post Office and Additional Departmental Branch Post Office. At the same time, all post offices provide the same postal services, but the delivery work is responsible for the specific post offices. In such a situation, the modern postal system started in the country before the 18th century, and in 1766, the postal system established by Lord Clive was developed by Warren Hastings in the year 1774 by establishing Kolkata GPO.

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The General Post Offices of Chennai and Mumbai came into existence in the years 1786 and 1793 respectively. In such a situation, World Post Day is celebrated every year on 10 October. Simultaneously, the main purpose of celebrating this is to give information about the postal department to customers, make them aware and establish cohesion between post offices. It is said that this day is celebrated in Bern in Switzerland, in the year 1874, in commemoration of the establishment of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) and its country also became a member of the Universal Postal Union on 1 July 1876. India is the first country in Asia to take this membership and on October 1, 1854, the Government of India established a department for postage.

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