Floting Post Office in India
Doodlebrary
- India’s postal department is worldwide popular for its largest network and largest number of post offices.
- But most people don’t know that India’s postal department is also popular for its floating post office in the Dal Lake branch.
- Jammu and Kashmir is an icy hot destination for Indian and world tourists especially Srinagar’s Dal Lake.
- Dal Lake is the most beautiful Lake in India because of its beautiful shikaras and houseboats floating against the backdrop of snow-clad mountains.
- This floating post office just adds to its gorgeousness.
- Apart from its natural beauty, weather, and ambience, Srinagar’s Dal Lake is very popular worldwide for having the world’s first Floating post office.
- This Post Office is floating on a huge houseboat with two small rooms in Dal Lake.
- One room is for its office and another for a small museum. There have philately museum, shops that postage stamp, picture post cards, greetings cards, local souvenir items, stationery and several books on Kashmir in this post office.
- Apart from these service this Floating post office allow tourists to call and email their friends and relatives all across the world.
- It’ s basically a heritage post office that has existed since British Times and was called Neheru Park Post Office before 2011.
- In 2011 former chief post master John Samuel took an intiative to repurpose it and renamed as “Floating Post Office”.
- In 2011 Floating Post was inaugurated by Jammu Kashmir’s former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and Union Minister of States for communication and IT Sachin Pilot.
