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The Department of Posts is celebrating its 150th anniversary. As a part of Republic Day Parade, the Department is bringing out tableau to present the glimpses of its 150 years of journey.
The design of the first ever tableau on India Post attempts to indicate the vast outreach and the multi-faceted activities of the Department both in terms of time and space from the old and traditional forms of the postal service to the new age e-based services. The early postman in red costume of his time holds a bunch of letters and carries a bag. A village letter box hangs from a tree on which a symbolic pigeon is also sitting. The focus then shifts towards the grandeur of Calcutta GPO representing the pioneering efforts to establish a well recognized postal service.
Further the tableau move on to wooden counters equipped with state of the art computers, providing multiple services to a variety of customers.
A dramatic depiction of this journey through time is shown by a rotating cuboid carrying the set of 4 stamps released to commemorate 150 years of Indian Post. The last part has a hand, holding a scanner, which reads the barcode on the letter. The tableau is decorated with postage stamps on both sides.
Walking along side the tableau are the carries and deliverers of mail through the ages from the mail runner (harkara) to the postman in his newest uniform.
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