Have you ever been to a post office? If you haven’t then you missed watching the functioning of receiving and despatching of mail from different parts of the world to people’s homes.
In 1914, the Postal Department merged with the Telegraph Office and the department came to be known as Indian Post and Telegraph Department.
The logo was accordingly modified with an addition of two telegraph lines on both sides of the Post Horn. In 1959, the motto of the department “Service before self”( Aharshana Seva Mahe ) was on the top of the logo and in between these the charka was featured.
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In 1985 the Postal Department bifurcated the Post and Telegraph Department. Though the logo carried the post horn and the telegraph line was continued the Department of Posts modified and developed its own logo which was launched on World Post Day on October 9, 1993. It represents dynamism and action.
Did you know The Post Office Act XVII of 1837 gave the Governor-General of India the right to carry letters by post within East India Company territory. This was a privilege and only certain officials could make use of this system.On October 1, 1837, the Indian Post Office was established as a public postal system. Post offices were established in major towns, and postmasters appointed.In 1850, Lord Dalhousie established a commission to evaluate the Indian Postal system. The recommendations of the committee resulted in the Post Office Act of 1854 being superseded.Around this time postage stamps were introduced and postal rates were fixed by weight and not distance.The Indian Post Office became a monopoly charged with carrying mail throughout British India.However, some princely states continued to operate their own systems. There were Convention States and Feudatory States. The Convention States had agreements with the Post Office of India to provide service within their territories but with overprinted stamps issued by the Post Office. The Feudatory States on the hand provided their own services and issued their own stamps, which were valid only within their states.In 1858, the British Raj was established with the rule of the East India Company being transferred to the Crown. In 1861, there were 889 post offices and they were handling approximately 43 million letters and over 4.5 million newspapers a year.The world's first official airmail flight took place in India on 18 February 1911, a journey of 18 kilometres lasting 27 minutes.India Post inaugurated a floating post office in August 2011 at Dal Lake in Srinagar, Kashmir.The corporate logo was introduced to identify the Indian Post Office and its relevant functions.The streamlined graphic depicting double wings representing dynamism and action is characteristic of the postal department.





In 2008, another logo was unveiled. This was a rectangle, resembling an envelope, in deep red with the image of birds’ wings in yellow. Red symbolises the traditional association with the post office, along with passion, power and commitment. Yellow, on the other hand is symbolic of hope, joy and happiness.




 Source:-The Hindu