India Post
The Department of Posts, d/b/a India Post, is an Indian public sector postal system statutory body headquartered in New Delhi, India. It is an organisation under the Ministry of Communications. It is the most widely distributed postal system in the world and India is the country that has the largest number of post offices in the world with 164,999 post offices including 149,385 rural post offices and 15,614 urban post offices.
Basic Information
- Category: Large Enterprise
- Founded: 1854
- Headquarters: New Delhi
- Website: https://www.indiapost.gov.in
Documented Facts
- Email: socialmedia.dop@gov.in (No linked source recorded for this statement.)
- Founded: 1854 (No linked source recorded for this statement.)
- Employees: 448,840 (No linked source recorded for this statement.)
- Annual revenue: $1.8B (No linked source recorded for this statement.)
- Website: https://www.indiapost.gov.in (No linked source recorded for this statement.)
- Headquarters: New Delhi (No linked source recorded for this statement.)
- Industry: postal service (No linked source recorded for this statement.)
- Parent company: Ministry of Communications (No linked source recorded for this statement.)
- Country: India (No linked source recorded for this statement.)
- Subsidiaries: India Post Payments Bank (No linked source recorded for this statement.)
Evidence and Sources
- India Post — Official Site (official)
- India Post on instagram (social)
- India Post — Wikipedia (reference)
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- Recorded profile date: 2026-04-21
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The Department of Posts, d/b/a India Post, is an Indian public sector postal system statutory body headquartered in New Delhi, India. It is an organisation under the Ministry of Communications. It is the most widely distributed postal system in the world and India is the country that has the largest number of post offices in the world with 164,999 post offices including 149,385 rural post offices and 15,614 urban post offices.
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