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Saturday, February 18, 2012

Some Useful Information about Postal Service in World




The earliest form of postcode was   introduced in London in 1857 by Sir Rowland Hill, the inventor of the penny   post.
The Post Office was reorganized in   1660 and Henry Bishop was made Postmaster General in the world
In 1688 the first post office of the   Company Post was established at Bombay/Madras.
Mr. H P A B Riddle was appointed the   first Director General of Posts in May 1854 in India
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.
K Padmakshy Amma is the first post   woman in India. She joined the Trivandrum Postal Division on February 19,   1959.
The world's first official airmail   flight took place right here in India, on February 18, 1911
In 1872 the U.S. Postal Inspection   Service was created.
The R.M.S. Titanic was a   Royal Mail Ship, a designation which meant the Titanic was   officially responsible for delivering mail for the British postal service.
On board the Titanic was a Sea   Post Office with five mail clerks (two British and three American). These   mail clerks were responsible for the 3,423 sacks of mail (seven million   individual pieces of mail) . No mail has yet been recovered from the   wreck of the Titanic
The first organized Pigeon air mail service was started in 1896   between New Zealand and Great Barrier Reef.  The first message was   carried in January 1896 and took less than 1.75 hours to reach Aukland.
The hobby of collecting postmarks is   known as Marcophily. It fully applies to postmarks,   cancellations and postal markings.
Great Britain was the first county to   issue postage stamps.
The British parliament introduced a   postal service into the American colonies in 1710
U.S. Postal Service processes 38   million address changes each year
The fist Deputy Postmaster General was   American inventor Benjamin Franklin who was later dismissed for sympathizing   with the American revolutionary cause
The first commemorative stamp was   issued in 1893
The first African American to be   honored on a stamp was Booker T. Washington in 1940,
The United States Postal Service   processes over half a million pieces of mail every day and an important piece   of successful mail delivery is the ZIP code, a five digit numeric code at the   end of U.S. addresses.
ZIP stands for Zoning Improvement   Plan.
In the year 1911 demonstrations of   airplane mail service were made in India, England and the United States.
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