Philately
Philately is the study of postage stamps and postal history. It also refers to the collection, appreciation and research activities on stamps and other …
1. What is the fullform of PIN ?
2. How many PIN Code zones there in India ?
There are nine PIN Code zones in India,including eight regional zones and one functional zone
( for Armed forces ).
3. When was PIN Code system introduced in India ?
4. In which year world’s first postage stamp ‘Penny Black’ was issued ?
World’s first postage stamp “Penny Black” was issued on 1 May 1840 and became valid from 6 May 1840.
5. Which country issued world’s first postage stamp ?
6.Who is considered as the “Father of Postage Stamps” ?
7. What is the cost of ‘Meghdoot Post Card’ ?
8. When was India’s first ‘Meghdoot Post Card’ issued
9. What was depicted on India’s first Meghdoot Post Card ?
10. What is the name of actor featuring on India’s first MPC ?
11. What is the similarity between world’s first postage stamp and India’s first all India postage stamp ?
12. What is deltiology ?
13. Where is the headquarters of “Universal Postal Union (UPU)” ?
14. What is the purpose of “Project Arrow’ ?
15. Where is Postal Staff College located ?
16. When was the Postal Life Insurance (PLI) established in India ?
17. Who is the most portrayed Indian personality on Indian postage stamps of all times ?
18.Who is the most portrayed Indian woman on Indian postage stamps ?
19. Which is the highest denominatic minature sheet of India ?
20. Who was the first PVC award winner dipicted on postage stamp ?
21. Where is the National “Philatelíc Musuem situated” in India ?
22. Who was the first Indian king to be depicted on an Indian postage stamp ?
23. Who was the first Indian woman to be featured on an Indian postage stamp ?
24. What was depicted on the first postage stamp of Independent India ?
25. In which year India’s first postage stamp “Scinde Dawk” was issued?
26. What is the full form of ‘SOR’ ?
27. Where is the world’s highest “Post Office” located ?
28. What is aromatic postage stamp’?
29. India’s first aromatic postage stamp Date of issue ?
30.Who was the author of book “Post Office” ?
31. Who was the author of book “The Country without Post Office” ?
32. Who was the first Indian philatelist to be depicted on an Indian postage stamp ?
33. Which country has the largest postal system in the world ?
The Indian Postal network is the largest postal network inthe world with approx. 155,015 post offices.
34. What is the fullform of PS ?
35. When was the first Post Card issued in India ?
36. When was the first Inland Letter Card issued in India ?
37. Name the only Indian Post Office outside India ?
38. Name the great Tamil Poet of the 9th centuary was honoured on a postage stamp issue of 1966 ?
39. When was Postal Order launched in India ?
40. Who was the first Cricketer to be honoured on a Indian postage stamp ?
41. Who was the first cinema & Film personality to be depicted on an Indian postage stamp ?
42. A set of four postage stamp issued in 1991on Tribal Dances featured a dance from Tripura. Which was this dance ?
43. What is the fullform of PLI ?
44. On completion of which Railway Project was commemorated on a postage stamp in 1998 ?
45. Which is the biggest Post Office in India ?
46. Who was popularly known as the Frontier Gandhi, he was honoured by a postage stamp issued in India in 1993 ?
47. Who was the first sarving person from India to whom postage stamp issued ?
48. On which year the postage stamp honored to mark the completion of 150 years of Rabindranath Tagor’s birth ?
49. When was the Money Order Service started in India ?
50. Postal Worker Day ?
Philatelic Abbreviations
APS | ARMY POSTAL SERVICE |
АРО | POST OFFICE ARMY |
BO | BRANCH OFFICE |
Cat | CATALOGUE |
CEF | CHINA EXPEDITIONARY FORCE |
CPMG | CHIEF POSTMASTER GENERAL |
СТО | CTO CANCELLED TO ORDER |
DELY | DELIVERY |
DOI | DATE OF FIRST ISSUE |
DOP | DEPARTMENT OF POSTS |
EXPTL.S.O. | EXPERIMENTAL SUB OFFICE |
FDC | FIRST DAY COVER |
FPO | FIELD POST OFFICE |
FV | FACE VALUE |
GB | GREAT BRITAIN |
GPO | GENERAL POST OFFICE |
HO | HEAD OFFICE |
HPO | HEAD POST OFFICE |
ILC | INLAND LETTER CARD |
IPP | INDIAN POSTAL ORDER |
IPPB | India Post Payments Bank |
ISP | INDIAN SECURITY PRESS,NASHIK |
MC | MAXIMUM CARD |
MO | MONEY ORDER |
MPC | MEGHDOOT POST CARD |
MS | MINIATURE SHEET |
PC | POST CARD |
PCI | PHILATELIC CONGRESS OF INDIA |
PIN | POSTAL INDEX NUMBER |
PLI | POSTAL LIFE INSURANCE |
PO | POST OFFICE |
PPC | PICTURE POST CARD |
PS | POSTAGE STAMP |
PSI | THE PHILATELIC SOCIETY OF INDIA |
QV | QUEEN VICTORIA |
R | REGISTERED |
RPLI | RURAL POSTAL LIFE INSURANCE |
SC | SPECIAL COVER |
SG | STANLEY GIBBONS |
SS | SOUVENIR SHEET |
TL | TRAFFIC LIGHT |