Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Picture postcards tracing the path of Godavari with the cancellations released at Hyderabad – 24th July 2015.

To commemorate the “Godavari Pushkarams” observed from 14th to 25th July, 2015, Andhra Pradesh Postal Circle released a set of 16 post cards tracing the path of Godavari along with the cancellations of the post offices serving the place and destination points near Bay of Bengal with unique numbers. Shri B. V. Sudhakar, Chief Postmaster General, A. P. Circle released these pictorial post cards on 24th July 2015 at Hyderabad.
 
Each picture postcard illustrates an important place in the States of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, along which the River Godavari flows and bears special cancellation impression of office of posting and also the delivery stamp of different offices, where the River Godavari merges into the Bay of Bengal.
 
River Godavari having its origin at Triambakeshwar in Nasik, Maharashtra enters in Telangana State at Kandakurthi village touches some important places in Telangana viz. Basara, Dharmapuri, Kaleshwaram and Bhadrachalam, and then flows into Andhra Pradesh State towards places viz. Pattiseema, Kovvur, Kotilingalarevu, Dowlaiswaram, Ravulapalem, Kotipalli, Yanam, Appanapalli, Odalarevu, Narsapur and Atarvedi. The River Godavari splits into two major tributaries at Dowleswaram as Vriddha Gautami and Vasishta Godavari, with Vasishta Godavari again splitting into Vasishta and Vainateya; and Vriddha Gautami splitting into Gautami and Nilarevu flowing for a total of 1465 kms.
Set of 16 pictorial postcards is priced at Rs.1000/- per set and beautifully packed with special embroidery work at its right top corner showing river routing from its origin till its mouth point. These post cards are released in limited number i.e., 500 sets and made available for sale at five Philately Bureaux in Telangana and AP State. Interested philatelists may contact following philatelic bureaux to place their orders:
 
Hyderabad GPO – 500001, Tel No. 040 23463515 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 040 23463515 FREE end_of_the_skype_highlighting /23463517
Vijayawada HO – 520001, Tel No.0866 2425649 / 2425645
Visakhapatnam HO – 530001, Tel Nos.0891 2546250 / 2546251
Kurnool HO – 518001, Tel Nos.08518 289207 / 289205
Tirupati HO – 517 501, Tel Nos.0877 2289204 / 2289211
 
Picture postcards tracing the path of Godavari with the cancellations
 
Picture postcards tracing the path of Godavari with the cancellations
 
Picture postcards tracing the path of Godavari with the cancellations released at Hyderabad
 
Picture postcards tracing the path of Godavari with the cancellations released
 

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