Our country India has the largest Postal Network in the world with above 1, 55,015 Post Offices of which 1, 39,145 (About 89.76%) are in the rural areas.
At the time of independence, there were 23,344 Post Offices, which were primarily in urban areas.
Thus, the network has registered a 7 fold growth since Independence, with the focus of this expansion primarily in rural areas.
On an average, a Post Office serves an area of 21.21 Square Km and a population of about 7,175 people.
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