Postal system GK Questions
1. Which Governor general found Telegraph and Postal systems ?
Answer: Lord Dalhousie
2. When did the first General Post Office opened in India ?
Answer: 1774 (Kolkata)
3. Which is the first postage stamp of India ?
Answer: Scinde Dawk (1852)
4. What is the Fulform of PIN ?
Answer: Postal Index Number
5. When did the Pin system Started in India?
Answer: 1972 (In the same year Royal bangal Tiger replaces lion as National Animal)
6. Which is the first Indian post office outside Indian territory ?
Answer: post office at Dakshin Gangotri in Antarctica (1983)
7. When did the service of speed post started in India ?
Answer: 1986
8. In which year Money Order system introduced in India ?
Answer: 1880
9. In which year Postal Life Insurance started in India ?
Answer: 1884
10. Where is postal staff college situated ?
Answer: Ghaziabad (UP)
11. World Postal Day is observed in _________ ?
Answer: October 9
12. Indian Postal Day is observed in _________ ?
Answer: October 10
13. Where is highest post office in the world situated ?
Answer: Hikkim (Himachal Pradesh)
14. When did Universal Postal Union founded?
Answer: 1874
15. where is the Headquarters of Universal Postal Union (UPU)
Answer: Berne (Switzerland)
16. First Postal ATM was opened in which city?
Answer: Chennai
17.Where is the Headquarters of Indian postal system?
Answer: New Delhi
18. what is the purpose Project arrow?
Answer: Upgrade post offices in India(started in april 2008)
19. Hobby of collecting stamps is called?
Answer: Philately
20. First Indian King in the Postal Stamp ?
Answer: Chandra Gupta Mauryan
21. What is India’s first e-post office in India
Answer: Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg, New Delhi
22. Which state in india first implemented speed post in all their post offices?
Answer: Kerala
23. Post office in Dakshin gangothri starated on 26-01-1988
Answer: Antarctica
24. First indian stamp was introduced?
Answer: in the year 1852, name: scinde dawk by the sindh.
25. First stamp in world?
Answer: 1840
26. First stamp in independent India is
Answer: in 1947 Nov 21
27. First Indian in Stamp?
Answer: in 1948 Aug 15 (Gandhiji)
28. Which one and only governer general introduced and developed the postal service in british india ?
Answer: Dalhousie
29. who is the first post women of India
Answer: Meera bai
30. First Indian queen in postal stamp?
Answer: Queen Elizabeth
31. Which country issued stamps whic smelt and halted of chocolates
Answer: Belgium
32. Which is the economic Capital of India?
Answer: Mumbai