Indian Post Service may have become more of a formal medium of communication than what it used to be earlier in the days. Writing & posting letters to your loved ones was a very important part of our daily lives. The feeling of receiving a handwritten letter from someone you love is something the millennials today will not understand.
Way before Facebook & WhatsApp, post services were the only means of inter-city communication for almost 150 years. People wrote their hearts out in these letters and people kept them for years as mementos. That feeling of nostalgia can be hardly felt today through our electronic means of communication.
But despite being such a crucial part, Indian post has had their share of problems as well. From misplacing your letters to delivering at the incorrect address, there have been certain instances that a few of us will be able to relate to. But despite the flaws, our postal service may have they have proven to be pretty astonishing at times.
Today we bring you a couple of stories of how the Indian Post worked in their mysterious ways and delivered letters with incomplete addresses.
As shared by Hindustan Times, a Twitter user, Navdeep Singh, tweeted details of how Indian postal services delivered his letter despite having an incomplete address.
"Maj NavNeeT Singh, High Court, Panchkula, Haryana"
A distinguished service medal is due to our @IndiaPostOffice for delivering this letter to my residential address facing all odds, and that too in time 😀
✌️🎖️ pic.twitter.com/6bC44Rnejn
— Navdeep Singh (@SinghNavdeep) March 10, 2020
What started off as one tweet soon went viral and people from everywhere came forward and shared their stories of how Indian Postal Service did the same with their letters.
"Maj NavNeeT Singh, High Court, Panchkula, Haryana"
A distinguished service medal is due to our @IndiaPostOffice for delivering this letter to my residential address facing all odds, and that too in time 😀
✌️🎖️ pic.twitter.com/6bC44Rnejn
— Navdeep Singh (@SinghNavdeep) March 10, 2020
In 1975, a letter written by me to my mother "Mummy Kapurthala", reached her. Those were the days. Small towns. Postmen could perhaps sense from handwriting. I am was among the few young officers, may be
— Aviator Anil Chopra (@Chopsyturvey) March 11, 2020
Yes sir, our Postal deptt seems highly efficient and awfully imagination/thoughtful at times…
1965
The address written on the PC, I received then was …
VED RATTAN SETHI
1866, SECTOR 22B( No CHANDIGARH)
I was a very Jr. functionary then !!
— Prof V.R. Sethi 🇮🇳 MODIfied 🇮🇳 (@SethiVed) March 11, 2020
Remember in early nineties, an inland letter card being delivered to us with addres as 381/2 Lucknow. It had stamps of 11 post offices of Lucknow. But it did reach the intended recipient. Kudos to efforts of @indiapostoffice.
— Kandarp Tiwari (@Kandarpnath) March 11, 2020
It was in 2009, someone sent a new year card with address "Shahid Iqbal Choudhary IAS, Jammu" and @IndiaPostOffice still delivered it at my home. I was just amazed at their efforts.
— Shahid Choudhary (@listenshahid) March 11, 2020
