Rural Post Office

A rural post office, on the Post Office stamp of 2008.

Technical data Notes Condition

Date of issue October 13, 2008

Denomination Rs. 5

Quantity printed 800000

Printer Security Printing Press, Hyderabad

Perforation 13

Watermark No Watermark

Colours Multicolor

Printing process Wet Offset

Credit Sh. Sankha Samanta

Catalogue codes Michel IN 2302 Stamp Number IN 2261 Yvert et Tellier IN 2064 Stanley Gibbons IN 2514 WADP Numbering System - WNS IN046.2008

Themes Buildings, Philately, Post Offices

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About this stamp

On the Stamp

A rural post office with a red post box, villagers at the counter and a postman with his bag.

The Post Office

India Post issued a ₹5 stamp, singly and in a miniature sheet, on 13 October 2008 on the post office. The sheet recalls The Post Office (Dak Ghar), Rabindranath Tagore’s play of 1912 about Amal, a sick child confined to his uncle’s house, who dreams of receiving a letter from the King when a new post office is built nearby. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on Wikipedia and on the stamps themselves.