NATIONAL POSTAL WEEK

India Post celebrates

NATIONAL POSTAL WEEK

from

09-10-2009 to 15-10-2009

October 9th is the World Post Day. Starting from 9th October India Post is celebrating Postal Week. During this week, India Post will get in touch with its customers informing them of new initiatives. One of the key initiatives of India Post is the introduction of three aircrafts carrying mail, parcel, speed post and logistic consignments. This will result in delivery of parcel and logistic consignments by next day in major cities. With one lakh fifty five thousand post offices in the country, India Post has the largest postal network in the world. World Post Day is celebrated every year on 9th October, to commemorate the anniversary of the establishment of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) in 1874 in the Swiss Capital, Bern. It was declared World Post Day by the UPU Congress held in Tokyo Japan in 1969. Since then, countries across the world use the occasion to introduce and promote new postal products and services.