First Post Office
India's First Post Office (Image courtesy: PTI)India’s “first” post office bearing PIN code 193224 is located on the banks of the Kishanganga river, the de facto Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district with Pakistan-occupied territory just across the stream at a stone’s throw.
Earlier it was known as the last post office as no mail could be delivered beyond it. Then, the Army changed it to the first post office as it is the first post office from the LoC or the border in terms of distance. The post office has been functional even before Partition and has not stopped delivering mail even at peak Indo-Pak hostilities in 1965, 1971 or the frequent cross-border shelling incidents that became regular occurrences after eruption of Pakistan-backed militancy in 1990.
The post office was even washed away in the flash floods that hit the Keran sector in 1993.