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On the Stamp
Two policemen sending off carrier pigeons, one with his arms raised and the other beside a crate of birds, with the words “Pigeon Post” in Hindi and English, on a ₹1 stamp.
The Orissa Police Pigeon Post
India Post issued this ₹1 stamp on 3 November 1989. The Orissa Police, the only state force in India to keep this method of communication, began it in 1946 with 40 pigeons from the departing colonial government. By 1989 it had 1,926 homing pigeons across 17 police districts, trained in three ways: static, mobile and boomerang. India Post’s folder recalls earlier users in Chandragupta Maurya, Ashoka and the Mughal emperors.
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