Postal system

1. Which Governor general found Telegraph and Postal systems ?
Answer: Lord Dalhousie


2. When did the first General Post Office opened in India ?
Answer: 1774 (Kolkata)


3. Which is the first postage stamp of India ?
Answer: Sinde Dawk (1852)


4. What is the Fulform of PIN ?
Answer: Postal Index Number


5. When did the Pin system Started in India?
Answer: 1972 (In the same year Royal bangal Tiger replaces lion as National Animal)


6. Which is the first Indian post office outside Indian territory ?
Answer: post office at Dakshin Gangotri in Antarctica (1983)


7. When did the service of speed post started in India ?
Answer: 1986


8. In which year Money Order system introduced in India ?
Answer: 1880


9. In which year Postal Life Insurance started in India ?
Answer: 1884


10. Where is postal staff college situated ?
Answer: Ghaziabad (UP)


11. World Postal Day is observed in _________ ?
Answer: October 9

12. Indian Postal Day is observed in _________ ?
Answer: October 10
13. Where is highest post office in the world situated ?
Answer: Hikkim (Himachal Pradesh)


14. When did Universal Postal Union founded?
Answer: 1874

15. where is the Headquarters of Universal Postal Union (UPU) 
Answer:  Berne (Switzerland)
  
16. First Postal ATM was opened in which city?
Answer: Chennai

17.Where is the Headquarters of Indian postal system?
Answer: New Delhi

18. what is the purpose Project arrow?
Answer:  Upgrade post offices in India(started in april 2008)

19. Hobby of collecting stamps is called?
Answer: Philately  

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