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National Post Day – October 10
October 19 , 2019
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- National Postal Day is celebrated in India on 10 October every year.
- The day is observed to commemorate the role played by the Indian postal department for the past 150 years.
- Indian postal Day celebrated as an extension of World Post Day, which is celebrated on 9 October.
- The India post was founded in 1854 by Lord Dalhousie.
- It functions under the Ministry of Communications.
- Under the postal department, the 6-digit PIN system was introduced by the Union Ministry of Communications on 15 August 1972.
- The word PIN in pincode stands for Postal Index Number.
- The first digit of the PIN code marks the region.
- The second digit denotes the sub-region.
- The third digit marks the district.
- The last three digits show the post office under which a particular address fall.
- National Postal Week is also celebrated in October 9th to October 15th.
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