Last updated on February 11th, 2021 at 08:16 am

Post Office Working Hours in India is different in different circles and regions as Post Offices offers different services to its customers. So different Post Offices have different Opening and Closing Time. Most of the post offices work from Monday to Saturday except for holidays.

In this post you can find the answers of common post office related queries like Is post office open on Saturday? Second and fourth saturday holiday for post office? is post office open on second Saturday? etc

Postal department in India has 16 postal circles. So we cannot generalize the Timing of Post office in all circles.

Post Office opening time official is 8 am to 4 pm. But Post office opening time depends on what transaction you need to do and which place you are in.

ie; Different services in post offices will have different Opening and Closing hours.

For Eg. Savings Bank and Savings Certificates service opening time is 9.00 am to 2.00 pm. But the same Post office will have a different time for the Booking of a registered letter or Parcel (9.00 am to 6.00 pm).

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Post office working days in India Monday to Saturday Except for public Holidays.

Post offices in India are classified into the following categories.

• G.P.O.- General Post Office
• H.P.O.- Head Post Office
• M.D.G.- Mukhya Dak Ghar
• R.M.S.- Railway Mail Services (Mail Offices)

Post Offices in cities have working hours between 10.00 a.m to 6.00 p.m or 09.30 a.m to 05.30 p.m.

Rural Post Office Working Hours: 10.a.m to 2.p.m 

Time may vary depends on the arrival time of the mails (Depends on the Railway or State Transport Timing).

Some of the post offices work 24×7 in India.  Eg: Some R.M.S Centers may work night also (6.00 p.m to 6.a.m), depends on the goods train timing in that region. Even though Sunday is a holiday, Some Post Offices (such as RMS, GPO) may work.

Booking and service for public deals is 10 am to 4 pm for the head post office and 9 am to 5 pm for sub-post offices.

• Post Offices have a perfect slot of working hours and lunchtimes. (But postal office working hours and lunchtime may different in different circles)
• The post offices do not open on Sundays (But some RMS, GPO may open depends on the Circle)
• The post office remains open on Saturdays except if it is not a holiday (But some services may close at 12.p.m, other services may work till 2.pm, 4.p.m, or 6.pm)
• Other than public holidays, the post office remains close on the other five days in a year and it differs from circle to circle.
• The normal working hours of the post office are from 8 AM to 4 PM.
• Is post office open on 4th Saturday? Yes, Post office open on 4th Saturday
  

Post Office Lunch Time: 01.30 p.m to 02.30. p.m 

Some of the public and regional holidays are listed below:

With over 150,000 post offices in India, Indian Post Office is beneficial and helpful for the Indian citizens in many different ways. Through the post office, people send and receive letters, Money orders, Parcel, Speed Post articles etc. All the post offices are the branches of the  Postal Department in India. In the olden days, there was no post office in India, so people used to send and receive with the help of messengers. As the technology has been improved, the letters and the parcels can be received and sent easily.

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