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 ?

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