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An early horse-drawn mail cart with its driver and a passenger, with the words “INPEX-75” and “Early Mail Cart” in Hindi and English, on a 25 paise stamp.
The Early Mail Cart
India Post issued two stamps on 25 December 1975 for INPEX-75, the second India National Philatelic Exhibition, held at Calcutta from 25 to 31 December 1975 after the first at New Delhi in 1970. Before the railways, horse-drawn mail carts carried the post along the main roads, with fresh horses at each stage.
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