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Long innings of India Post

VIKAS S. KHATRI

On October 1, 1854, India Post was born with a skeletal network of 701 post offices under the control of a Director General. The Post Office Act of 1854 reformed the earlier postal system, providing total monopoly to the Government for the management of the Post Office and the exclusive privilege for conveyance of letters. The Railway Mail Service was also established in 1854, and a new sea mail service was introduced from India to Great Britain and China. On October 1, 1854, the first postage stamp valid across the country was issued at an affordable and uniform rate of postage, fixed by weight and not by distance.

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