lord cornwallis was the british governor general who introduced the first postal system in india.
lord cornwallis was the british governor general who introduced the first postal system in india.
british governor general who introduced first postal system in india was?
lord cornwallis
the department of posts (dop), trading as india post, is a government-operated postal system in india, which is a subsidiary of the ministry of communications. generally called "the post office" in india, it is the most widely distributed postal system in the world. founded in 1854 by lord dalhousie who laid the foundation for the modern indian postal service. dalhousie introduced uniform postage rates (universal service) & passed the india post office act 1854 which significantly improved upon lord william bentinck's 1837 act which had introduced post offices in india. it created the position director general of post for the whole country .
india post
during the few years leading up to the revolution goddard became well noted for the innovations he introduced to the postal system as it came to be employed in mail delivery between the various colonies. goddard's postal system came about as the result of a series of conflicts involving his newspaper, "the pennsylvania chronicle", and the "crown post", a postal administration and mail delivery system that was in use in the british colonies prior to the advent of american independence, under the authority of the british crown. as the idea of revolution began to surface throughout the colonies the british began manipulating the crown post (the colonial mail system) by blocking the mail and communications between the various colonies in an effort to prevent them from organizing with each other. the crown also resorted to the delaying or destroying of newspapers and opening and reading private mail, a form of postal censorship that the british crown considered legal. goddard's "pennsylvania chronicle" was sympathetic to the revolutionary ideas being put forth by benjamin franklin, and others, and so his publication was routinely criticized and under the constant scrutiny of the crown post authorities. franklin had just fallen from grace with the british monarchy by exposing massachusetts governor thomas hutchinson with his own letters, showing him to be in collusion with british efforts to impose more laws and taxes on the colonies in america, and so his involvement with the "chronicle" further prompted the crown in their dealings with goddard's newspaper. in their effort to see the "pennsylvania chronicle" delivered, franklin and goddard persevered and in the midst of british scrutiny would create a separate postal system that ultimately became the postal system in use in the united states today. with the colonies then in dire need of a postal system the committee of correspondence in boston wrote to the committee in salem in march 1774 suggesting that an independent postal system be set up, and introduced william goddard as a more than qualified man for such an undertaking.
william goddard (u.s. patriot/publisher)