Postal Services

Indian postal service is the government operated postal system in India. The general public refers to the Indian postal service as ‘the post office’.

The Indian postal service is the largest postal network in world with 155,000 post offices spread across all over the country. With post offices in almost every corner of the country, it helps people stay in touch irrespective of the length and breadth of the country.

Indian postal service provide many facilities like- general or registered mail, parcel post, speed post, greeting post, express post, media post, e post and special courier service known as EMS-speed post. It also provides us with various financial services like international money transfer, instant money order service, money order, mutual funds. Various post office savings schemes like National Savings Certificate, Kisan Vikas Patra, Recurring Deposits and Term Deposits are also available.

The letter boxes in India are colour coded like- green coloured boxes are meant for local letters, and for metropolitan and other cities as well as international mails can be dropped in red coloured boxes. Quick Mail Service (QMS) has yellow colour boxes.

Post offices are open 6 days a week, Monday to Friday 10am to 5 pm and on Saturdays until noon. Parcels sent overseas cannot exceed 20kgs. Book post is a cheaper option for books, documents and printed materials and in this the maximum weight allowed is 5kgs.

A person should always attach a stamp and then post the letters and postcards.


Important numbers

General Post Offices

Ashok Road, Delhi
(011) 2336 4111


Nagar Chowk, Mumbai
(022) 2262 0693


1 Koilaghat St, Kolkata
(033) 2210 5451


25 Rajaji Salai, Chennai
(044) 2521 6766


Foreign Post Offices

Kotla Marg, near ITO, Delhi
(011) 2323 1281


Bailard Estate, Mumbai
(022) 2261 1488


Church Lane, Kolkata
(033) 2248 1523


Anna Salai, Chennai
(044) 2852 1947


For more information about India Post, Click here