Today I came back home to see my little one
playing with the post card I had sent her from the world’s highest post office.
I was not even hoping it will reach her. It just took 20 days to find my address ! After all it has
travelled from 15,000 ft to 3000 ft crossing 1000 of miles and many post
offices !! Thanks to Indian postal
services for bringing such a lovely moments !!
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| Me at Hikkim post office |
I am talking about Hikkim village in Spiti
valley of Himachal Pradesh. It boasts of having the world’s highest post office. Located at a
distance of about 25 kms from Kaza,
Spiti’s district headquarters, Hikkim is
a puny village with countable number of houses. This village is located on the
way to Dhankar from Kaza.
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| Hikkim village...Left bottom building is post office |
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| Landscape in the neighbourhood |
Hikkim can be
found after Langza before Komic if you travel from Kaza. I was told that this post office handles about
20 letters per day. Hikkim also has the worlds’s highest polling centre !
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| Kids from the post office home |
When we reached there post man wasn’t there. It
was a post office come home. Lady at home helped us with pen and post card. She
collected our cards with money to stamp it later. I gave it but not with full
hopes of finding it back. Now that I have it here, I am delighted. It will be
part of Viha’s collections. As we observed the funeral of telegraph services, who
knows she might not even see the world of post cards, stamps and post offices
when she grows up.
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