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Saturday, April 1, 2017

Postal Department Commemorates India's History Of Transport

The Department of Posts, India, recently, presented 20 stamps representing history of transportation in India which has everything from palanquins, animal driven carriages and carts, rickshaws, vintage cars, buses, metro rail and even trams.

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The stamps were presented by Ms Kalpana Rajsinghot, Postmaster General, Gurgaon Region, Haryana Circle, Department of Posts in the presence of Tarun Thakral, Founder & Managing Trustee, Heritage Transportation Trust.

The special series stamps are in the form of miniature sheets in a prestige booklet issued for the first time. The Heritage Transport Museum have played a key role in the making of these stamps as fifteen out of the twenty stamps have images of vehicles that are present at the museum. It's amazing therefore to see all of these in one go and it is such collections that attract philatelists, not just in India but also across the world. We are sure you'll find this piece of transport history extremely exciting.

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