Re: [datameet] India Post Office Data

2019-12-07 Thread Naraina Damle
Surprisingly the number 110122 is just for one advocate's office. On Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 9:19:39 PM UTC+5:30, Naraina Damle wrote: > > Hello, > > Long time back I had tried to get all possible data from Internet. > Also at that time i had attended a meet in BLR about Pincodes > and sha

Re: [datameet] India Post Office Data

2019-12-07 Thread Naraina Damle
Hello, Long time back I had tried to get all possible data from Internet. Also at that time i had attended a meet in BLR about Pincodes and shared the data. That data has this Pincode. Assigned to Krishi Bhavan The source was Post Office Site. More of such "single" office Numbers are here.

Re: [datameet] India Post Office Data

2019-12-06 Thread Nikhil VJ
Hi Devdatta, Nice find! It's all dated 2007, so it's possible the program got phased out in the intervening 12 years, or it didn't transfer over to next official in charge or so. The attached letter from Dept of Posts, explaining that they were identifying institutions with v.high mail volume and

Re: [datameet] India Post Office Data

2019-12-03 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
I have finally found my Whale!! For a Long time, I have been searching for an example of a Pincode, which delivers to only a specific Government Office/Institution. I finally found this link to a circular on the ICAR site, which says that pincode 110114 has been assigned to it. https://icar.org

Re: [datameet] India Post Office Data

2019-05-27 Thread Varun
Thanks a lot, Devdatta. > On May 10, 2019, at 8:00 AM, Devdatta Tengshe wrote: > > And One Post office can serve multiple pincodes (I've heard this from > Employees of the Postal Department, but haven't found an example of it) > This is quite odd. Would be good to confirm this. > > I was told

Re: [datameet] India Post Office Data

2019-05-25 Thread Varun
Thanks a lot, Devdatta & Arun > On May 10, 2019, at 8:00 AM, Devdatta Tengshe wrote: > > And One Post office can serve multiple pincodes (I've heard this from > Employees of the Postal Department, but haven't found an example of it) > This is quite odd. Would be good to confirm this. > > I was

Re: [datameet] India Post Office Data

2019-05-10 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
> > And One Post office can serve multiple pincodes (I've heard this from >> Employees of the Postal Department, but haven't found an example of it) >> > This is quite odd. Would be good to confirm this. > I was told by an old Post master, that certain Government Buildings had their own Pincodes,

Re: [datameet] India Post Office Data

2019-05-10 Thread Arun Ganesh
There used to be a hackpad https://datameet.hackpad.com/PINCODE-Hell.-M4hPFJVV2Gm with a lot of pincode research which unfortunately seems to be lost. Unique pincodes are assigned to an area that has substantial postal deliveries. A pincode area could be as small as a university with a single post

Re: [datameet] India Post Office Data

2019-05-10 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Hi Varun, please look here for the data: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/datameet/DJb5cTLr8Sc/FFQ6NTy_DAAJ And to answer your question, One pincode can cover multiple post-offices. And One Post office can serve multiple pincodes (I've heard this from Employees of the Postal Department, but haven'

[datameet] India Post Office Data

2019-05-09 Thread Varun
Hi All, Since post-offices are a hub of activity in many parts of the country, I am trying to understand how post-offices in India are spread. The official website says that each post office serves about 7753 people. I was wondering if data on post office locations were available? I also had a