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  2. Postal Index Number - Wikipedia

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    Sorting district 2-digit postcode areas in India (defined through the first two PIN digits) The third digit of a PIN, combined with the first two digits, represents a specific geographical region (except in the case of the functional zone for the Army) called a sorting district that is headquartered at the main post office of the largest city in the region and is known as the sorting office.

  3. India Post - Wikipedia

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    www .indiapost .gov .in. India Post is an Indian government-operated postal system in India, and is the trade name of the Department of Post under the Ministry of Communications. Generally known as the Post Office, it is the most widely distributed postal system in the world. Warren Hastings had taken initiative under East India Company to ...

  4. Postal code - Wikipedia

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    A postal code (also known locally in various English-speaking countries throughout the world as a postcode, post code, PIN or ZIP Code) is a series of letters or digits or both, sometimes including spaces or punctuation, included in a postal address for the purpose of sorting mail . As of August 2021, the Universal Postal Union lists 160 ...

  5. Mail - Wikipedia

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    A postman collecting mail for delivery. The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letters, and parcels. [1] A postal service can be private or public, though many governments place restrictions on private systems. Since the mid-19th century, national postal systems have generally been established as a government ...

  6. Postage stamps and postal history of the Indian states

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    One of the earliest postage stamps of Hyderabad state, the half-anna 1871 Stanley Gibbons ser 4. Two rupees 1897 Queen Victoria head of Nabha, a convention state. Two anna red-brown 1916 postage stamp of Orchha state. A post box from Travancore period known as Anchal petty still being used in Kerala. The native states which issued postage ...

  7. -ji - Wikipedia

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    -ji (IAST: -jī, Hindustani pronunciation:) is a gender-neutral honorific used as a suffix in many languages of the Indian subcontinent, such as Hindi, Nepali and Punjabi languages and their dialects prevalent in northern India, north-west and central India.

  8. Shri - Wikipedia

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    Shri is an epithet of the Hindu goddesses - Lakshmi. Shri is a polite form of address equivalent to the English "Mr." or "Ms.". [7] Shri is also frequently used as an epithet of some Hindu gods, in which case it is often translated into English as Holy.

  9. General Post Office, Chennai - Wikipedia

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    Chennai General Post Office (GPO) is located on Rajaji Salai at Parry's Corner, Chennai. It functions in a building built in 1884. It is located opposite to the Chennai Beach suburban railway station. Chennai GPO covers an area of about 23.33 km 2 (9.01 sq mi) and serves a population of around 220,000. It has no sub-branch offices.