Tourists to Jammu and Kashmir have another attraction -
a Floating Post Office on the Dal Lake in Srinagar, the first
in the country, 'Floating Post Office, Dal Lake' -claimed to
be the only one such post office in the world - is built on
an intricately carved maroon houseboat, fastened on the
western edge of the Dal Lake.
This post office lets you avail of all the regular postal
services available in the country while being afloat. The
seal used on everything posted from Floating Post Office
is unique - along with the date and address, it bears the
design of a boatman rowing a shikara on the Dal Lake.
The special feature of this post office is that letters
posted from here carry a special design which has the
picturesque scenery of Dal Lake and Srinagar city. These
pictures reach wherever these letters are posted to and
hence promote Kashmir as a tourist destination across
the world. This is actually a heritage post office that has
existed since British times. It was called Nehru Park Post
Office before 2011. But then the chief postmaster John
Samuel renamed it as 'Floating Post Office!
The post office's houseboat has two small rooms - one
serves as the office and the other a small museum that
traces the philatelic history of the state postal
department. It has a shop that sells postage stamps and
other products. But for the locals, Floating Post Office is
more than an object of fascination. 1-2 crore is deposited
per month in Floating Post Office by communities living in
and around the Dal Lake. The lake has several Islets that
are home to more than 50,000 people.
The greatest fear is the recurrence of 2014 like floods in
which the houseboat had gone for a toss uncontrollably
pushed by the flood. Rescue teams had to anchor It using
special mechanism in a nearby highland. Then It was
brought back on the Dal after the water receded.
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