Camel Post Office

Believe it or not that India is still continuing the functioning of mobile camel Post Offices in the Thar Desert. The 200p value Postage stamp shows a mobile camel Post Office in the desert of famous Thar Desert. Generally camels used to bear the postal articles on their back and wait in a particular time of a day in different locations of the desert. People know these timings and come to meet their postal needs. This stamp was released by Indian Postal Department in 1986 to commemorate its national philatelic exhibition.