Letter Box

Letter Box  - Date - 17.10.07

1.                  The red Indian Letter Box

You will find it everywhere

In cities, towns and villages

As a symbol of postal network.

2.                  The postal system was started

By the East India Company.

The first postage stamp was issued

In Karachi in 1852.

3.                  It was , however, valid

In the province of Sind only,

The other provinces had to wait

For two years to get same service.

4.                  In 1954, the company issued

A postage stamp on all-India basis,

There were altogether 662

Post Offices in India then.

5.                  Now look at the red letter-box

It accepts all kinds of letters

Invites, greetings, gifts and news-good and bad.

Holding them safely till clearance.

6.                  So whenever you want to say something

Which you don’t wish to convey by phone or e-mail

Take a paper and pen and write it down

Then push it down the throat of letter-box.

7.                  So next time you pass by a letter-box

Do halt and have a look at it,

And recall its selfless service

And with a silent hi, greet it!