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| GPO building, Mumbai. CitySeeker |
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| Mumbai GPO. GolGumbaz style interior. Alamy |
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Amazingly, the Postal department here takes care of 40,000 customers daily and handles 60,000 unregistered mails, besides a huge volume of registered mails, speed posts, money orders, etc. This massive and strikingly beautiful building is an important landmark in Mumbai. Can you imagine the entire history of the Deccan region, in fact, is closely interwoven with the postal history of Bombay Presidency? It is located in a serene place gently away from the swaying of palm trees and from the madding crowd. You have to go past the massive iron-wrought gates and you will be greeted by a massive old building with half-shaded corridors, spiral staircases and beautiful stained glasses.
The good news is INTACH (Indian National Trust for Art, Culture and History) was retained by the postal department to advise on the restoration and maintenance of the monument building that needs to be preserved for the posterity.
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/328903/mumbai-gpo-building-turns-100.html
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“It may not be having the acoustics wonder of Gol Gumbaz, but the Postal Department has decided to conserve the building. INTACH (Indian National Trust for Art, Culture and History) was engaged as consultant to advise us on the restoration and maintenance of the monument building. And we are awaiting for the final clearance,” Madhale said.
Talking of the present times, Madhale said: “Postal services have undergone a change no doubt, but on any given working day that spans 16 hours in Mumbai GPO, you will find at the end of the shifts that on an average we serve 40,000 customers. People have a lot of misconception that the postal work has gone down... every day we handle 60,000 unregistered mail and this does not include volumes of money orders, speed post articles and parcels and most of the parcels belong to foreign tourists. And all this is done in this building.”