All Post Offices in Vidarbha will celebrate National Postal Week in October every year, starting with World Post Day on Ocober 9 to mark anniversary of establishment of Universal Postal Union in 1874 in Berne.
The offices will display banners for the week on the opening day while on October 10 they will organise campaign to purchase postal life insurance, rural postal life insurance policies and to open accounts in post offices.
On October 11, they will celebrate Philately Day and Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsava, the offices will organise philatelic quiz competitions, philatelic seminars and workshops to create awareness about philately among the school children and promote hobby.
The other programmes include: Mail and Parcel Day celebrations, Antoday Din by organising camps in urban and rural areas for linking aadhar card numbers and updating and others.
