Postal services brought revolution globally

World Post Day started in 1969.

Pallavi Model School, conducted a virtual assembly to mark World Post Day on October 9. Students read out the history of postal services around the globe. World Post Day happens each year on October 9, the anniversary of Universal Postal Union (UPU), which started in 1874 in Switzerland.

UPU was the start of the global communication revolution, introducing the ability to write a letter to others all over the world. World Post Day started in 1969. Since then, countries all over the world take part in celebrations to highlight the importance of the postal service. Speakers at the event opined that postal services brought about a revolution in the world of communication across the globe.

Students listed out various events conducted to mark the day like stamp exhibition to encourage the philately, which mean collection and study of postal stamps. They spoke about how postal operations were carried out for many centuries in different countries. From the 1600s the first national postage systems began springing up in many countries.

These were more organised and many people could use them. By the late 1800s, there was a global postal service, but it was slow and complicated. The birth of the UPU in 1874 opened the way for the efficient postal service in existence today. In 1948, the UPU become an agency of the United Nations.

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