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The cream-and-red Fort Kochi Post Office building seen from the street through overhanging trees, with a red-and-yellow India Post signboard listing services out front.Ranjithsiji, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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From the story of the Anchal mail runners at the Head Post Office, Kochi — mail handled here since Portuguese times.

More of Head Post Office, Kochi

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  • A man in a khaki uniform and cap holding a ceremonial item, walking in a procession among men in traditional white and gold dress.
  • A man in a khaki uniform and cap holding a ceremonial item, walking in a procession among men in traditional white and gold dress.
  • Arched red-and-white India Post building with a ‘Kochi H.O. 682001’ signboard
  • Red India Post pillar letterbox marked ‘682001’ with a boat mural on the wall behind
  • A green-and-gold Victorian-style pillar postbox (anchal box) on a covered porch, with potted plants and a metal railing beside it.
  • A weathered 1922 postal card advertising Amruta Sirojani hair oil, with a handwritten address and postmark stamp.
  • Red and green pillar postboxes outside an arched building with India Post signage

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