Garulia Sub Post Office
R9FC+2F9, Noapara, Shyamnagar, Kolkata, West Bengal 743133, India
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Monday: 9–18
Tuesday: 9–18
Wedneasday: 9–18
Thursday: 9–18
Friday: 9–18
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Sunday: Close
Tuesday: 9–18
Wedneasday: 9–18
Thursday: 9–18
Friday: 9–18
Saturday: 9–18
Sunday: Close
There is evidence of corps of royal couriersdisseminating the decrees of the Egyptianpharaohs as early as 2,400 BC and the service may greatly precede even that date. Similarly, organized systems of posthouses providing swift mounted courier service seems quite ancient, although sources vary as to precisely who initiated the practice.[8] Certainly, by the time of the Persian Empire, a system of Chapar-Khaneh existed along the Royal Road. The 2nd-Century BC Mauryan and Han dynasties established similar systems in India and China. Suetonius credited Augustus with regularizing the Roman network, the cursus publicus. Local officials were obliged to provide couriers who would be responsible for their message's entire course. Locally maintained post houses (Latin: stationes) privately owned rest houses (Latin: mansiones) were obliged or honored to care for them along their way. Diocletian later established two parallel systems: one providing fresh horses or mules for urgent correspondence and another providing sturdy oxen for bulk shipments. Procopius, though not unbiased, records that this system remained largely intact until it was dismantled in the surviving empire by Justinian in the 6th Century.
The Princely House of Thurn and Taxis initiated regular mail service from Brussels in the 16th century, directing the Imperial Post of the Holy Roman Empire. The British Postal Museum claims that the oldest functioning post office in the world is on High Street in Sanquhar, Scotland . This post office has functioned continuously since 1712, an era in which horses and stage coaches were used to carry mail.
In parts of Europe, special postal censorshipoffices existed[when?] to intercept and censor mail. In France, such offices were known as cabinets noirs.