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A soldier in snow clothing reading a letter in the Himalayas, his rifle at his side, as a helicopter flies overhead and two men carry mail bags through the snow.
150 Years of Field Post Offices
India Post issued four ₹5 stamps, printed together, on 8 December 2006 for 150 years of the field post offices of the Indian Army. A field post office is a post office set up in wartime, or when a military unit is on manoeuvres, to which mail for units in the field is sent to be sorted and forwarded. In India they are run by the Army Postal Service, a military mail system staffed mainly by officers and men sent from the Department of Posts. The first was set up in 1856 for the British expeditionary force sent to Persia, and worked at Bushire. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on Wikipedia, on the issue’s own page on this site and on the stamps themselves.
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