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Anchal, the name of Kerala’s old postal service, comes from the Greek angelos — messenger.
Post office · Fort Kochi
Head Post Office, Kochi
Post a card from a 1928 bungalow that’s handled mail since Portuguese times.
150 m from Princess Street
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3- Did you knowKerala’s mail runners had legal right of way. By law, everyone else had to step aside.
- Did you knowMail has been handled on this one spot since the 1500s — Portuguese, then Dutch, then British, same address. The building itself is only from 1928.
- Did you knowThe sealed green box outside the post office is cast iron, made in Madras, and held up to 3,000 letters. Nothing has gone into it since the Anchal service merged with India Post in 1951.