Among other things good and bad that modern civilisation had produced, surely the postal system which covers the whole world, is one of its most benficial activities. It affects every individual whereever he may be in the wide world connecting him with millions of others. That connecting link is the postal system which has grown from age to age, till it is what we see today
- Jawaharlal Nehru as a foreword to Mulk Raj Anand's book Story of the Post Office.
