Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1898 — Postal Service in India. [ARTICLE]

Postal Service in India.

Of all postal service, that in East India is the most difficult. There are 4,000 packages monthly which do not reach their destination, on account of not bearing any address. The multitude of Hindoo dialects is another difficulty the postal officials have to contend with, and the postmen are expose*} to considerable danger from wile} beasts.