Permanent Pictorial Cancellation
Cellular Jail
- Introduced 2004
- South Andaman, Andaman and Nicobar Islands
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The post office
- Post office
- Port Blair H.O. Head Post Office
- PIN code
- 744101
- District
- South Andaman
- State
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands
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What do GPO, HO, SO and BO mean?
The letters after a post office’s name are its type in India Post’s network. GPO, HO, SO and BO go from the biggest office to the smallest.
- GPO
- General Post Office: the main post office of a large city.
- HO
- Head Post Office: the main office of a postal division; the sub offices around it report to it.
- SO
- Sub Post Office: a town or neighbourhood post office, under a head office.
- BO
- Branch Post Office: a small village office under a sub office, often open only a few hours a day.
- PB
- Philatelic Bureau: the stamp collectors’ counter at a head office.
- NA
- No longer active: the office is closed or merged with another.
The postmark of Port Blair’s head post office shows the Cellular Jail, the colonial prison remembered as Kala Pani, where many freedom fighters were held. Port Blair is the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and the usual starting point for visitors.
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The pin is approximate: it marks the PIN area, not the post office itself.
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Further reading
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