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Accepting this suggestion, the first Madras Post Office with fixed postal charges—the Madras GPO—was established by Governor Sir Archibald Campbell (1786–1790), who also established the Male and Female Orphan Asylums (that developed as St. George's School), and the postal service was thus made a government facility.
The Post Office Department of the East India Company was first established on 31 March 1774 at Calcutta, [5] followed in 1778 at Madras and in 1792 at Bombay. [6] After 1793, when Cornwallis introduced the Regulation of the Permanent Settlement , the financial responsibility for maintaining the official posts rested with the zamindars .
In the 1720s, the Company established a postal service mainly for internal communication. Governor-General Robert Clive initiated a regular postal system in 1766, and in 1774, Warren Hastings founded the first General Post Office (GPO) in Calcutta. This was followed by the establishment of the Madras GPO in 1786 and the Bombay GPO in 1794. [1]
In the same year, a link with Bombay was established then in 1837, the Madras, Bombay and Calcutta mail services were integrated to form the All-India Service. On 1 October 1854, the first stamps were issued by the Imperial Postal Service. The General Post Office (GPO), Madras, was established by Sir Archibald Campbell in 1786.
The Madras Record Office, currently known as Tamil Nadu Archives (TNA), is located in Chennai and is one of the oldest and largest document repositories in Southern India. . Documents stored and archived in TNA are invaluable to researchers working on post-independence Tamil Nadu or British-era Madras Presiden
The Government Savings Bank Act, 1873 (5 of 1873), passed by the legislature 28 January 1873, was enacted in 1881. On 1 April 1882, Post Office Savings Banks opened throughout India (except in the Bombay Presidency). In Madras Presidency, it was limited; in the Bengal Presidency, no POSBs were established in Calcutta or Howrah. [13]
Wellington Cantonment has two Post Offices. The main one, with the postal code 643231, is located opposite MRC, and is colloquially known as Barracks PO. The other is a sub-PO, located inside DSSC campus. This is a collection office only; the postal code is the same as for Barracks PO.
Chennai, formerly known as Madras, is the capital of the state of Tamil Nadu and is India's fifth largest city. [1] It is located on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal. With an estimated population of 12.05 million (2024), the 383-year-old city is the 31st largest metropolitan area in the world. The city of Madras in 1909