{"id":9823,"date":"2022-10-10T05:18:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T23:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9823"},"modified":"2025-03-29T15:39:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T10:09:23","slug":"world-post-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/world-post-day\/","title":{"rendered":"World Post Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The day is celebrated to commemorate the date of the establishment of the Universal Postal Union (UPU).<\/li>\n<li>It was instituted at the 1969 UPU Congress in Tokyo, Japan.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Theme:<\/strong>\u00a0The theme for World Post Day 2022 is &#8216;Post for Planet&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Universal Postal Union (UPU):<\/strong>\u00a0The Universal Postal Union (UPU) was started in 1874 in Switzerland.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>India:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The world&#8217;s first official airmail flight took place in India on February 18, 1911.<\/li>\n<li>The Indian Post Office Act 1898 was passed by the legislature on March 22, 1898. It became active on July 1, 1898.<\/li>\n<li>In Independent India, the first official postal stamp was issued on November 21, 1947. The new stamp depicted the Indian flag with the patriots&#8217; slogan &#8216;Jai Hind&#8217;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/world-news\/post-for-planet-on-world-post-day-a-recall-of-history-significance-101665282374233.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hindustan Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Post Day is an international day that occurs on October 9,the anniversary of Universal Postal Union<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}