The Indian Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1933.It was preceded by Act III of 1882 and Act XVI of 1896. The Indian Post Office Act, 1898, passed by the legislature on 22 March 1898, became effective on 1 July 1898 regulating postal service.299 dated 18 October 1882 to the Secretary of State.
Postal life insurance began on 1 February 1884 as a welfare measure for the employees of the Posts & Telegraphs Department as Government of India dispatch No. In Madras Presidency, it was limited in the Bengal Presidency, no POSBs were established in Calcutta or Howrah. 
On 1 April 1882, Post Office Savings Banks opened throughout India (except in the Bombay Presidency).
The Government Savings Bank Act, 1873 (5 of 1873), passed by the legislature 28 January 1873, was enacted in 1881. History Ī number of acts were enacted during the British Raj to expand and regulate posts and telegraphs service: One of the highest post offices in the world is in Hikkim, At 4,400m above sea level in northern India’s remote Spiti Valley, the Hikkim post office is a vital connection to the outside world. In addition to the 23 circles, there is a base circle to provide postal services to the Armed Forces of India headed by a Director General. These divisions are further divided into subdivisions. Each circle is divided into regions, headed by a Postmaster General and comprising field units known as Divisions. The country has been divided into 23 postal circles, each circle headed by a Chief Postmaster General. With 154,965 post offices (as on March 2017), India Post is the widest postal network in the world. The DoP also acts as an agent for the Indian government in discharging other services for citizens such as old age pension payments and Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) wage disbursement. It is involved in delivering mail (post), remitting money by money orders, accepting deposits under Small Savings Schemes, providing life insurance coverage under Postal Life Insurance (PLI) and Rural Postal Life Insurance (RPLI) and providing retail services like bill collection, sale of forms, etc. It created the position Director General of Post for the whole country. Dalhousie introduced uniform postage rates ( universal service) and helped to pass the India Post Office Act 1854 which significantly improved upon 1837 Post Office act which had introduced regular post offices in India. It was later modified into a service under the Crown in 1854 by Lord Dalhousie. It was initially established under the name "Company Mail". Warren Hastings had taken initiative under East India Company to start the Postal Service in the country in 1766. Generally known as the Post Office, it is the most widely distributed postal system in the world. 
Recently, the postal department even found passports inside the mailbox which were reportedly handed over to the Regional Passport office.India Post is a government-operated postal system in India, part of the Department of Post under the Ministry of Communications. In case, no address is available they put ID cards in an envelope and dispatch it to the concerned address. The ID cards that have contact details are informed and asked to collect it from the office. The pleasant part of this incident is the fact that postmasters perform this job as a service to citizens despite not getting any income out of it. The sub-postmasters in the post office concerned to take the extra pain to ensure that the cards are returned to the people to whom they belong. The staff members have discovered Aadhaar and PAN cards beside driving licences in the wallets. With the advent of the World Wide Web, messenger applications have outcast the memorable days of writing letters.Ĭhennai’s postal department has come across 70 such cases in the last six months when pickpockets dumped empty wallets into the postbox though, the cards remain intact, the Times Of India reported.
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The postbox would be full of letters as people would stand in queues waiting for their turn. Gone are those golden days when people would eagerly wait for a post in the mailbox. This might not be true for thieves in Chennai as after stealing money they have found a convenient way to dump wallets in postboxes. People might think that pickpockets and petty robbers keep wallets with themselves and sell them further to make a penny.
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