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HAD finished writing a letter to one of my old friends who stayed at Ambala. After having enveloped it I reached for my diary and wrote his address and fixed the acknowledgement due for registration. After writing the destination Ambala and under lining it, I suddenly stopped. I was not remembering the pin code of Ambala. When I tried a bit more I realized that I did not know the required pin code. Now, I know the importance of pin codes. The Government too, time to time advertised and insisted the people to always write the pin codes to facilitate sorting of the letters and make matters easy for the postal department. And I too, like any other straightforward person, always made it a point to write the code and thus help the postal department. I, therefore, regarded not writing pin code as a cardinal sin. I rang a few people. I was sure of their general knowledge. But they were not different than me. Few even furnished me the STD code of Ambala rather than the required pin code. Some had the audacity to ask me why I was posting a letter to Ambala. One fellow even asked me whether I needed pin of Ambala or Ambala Cantonment. It was a different thing that he knew
information on phone a few months ago. But the latest policy of the Corporation got this facility removed. Why dont you come here to our office and I shall certainly help a gentleman like you in your problem. She did not forget to add that my