World's one and only Floating Postoffice

You might have heard about floating markets, floating houseboats, floating hotels, and floating gardens. But what about the "Floating Post office"?

When you go to the Dal Lake, in Kashmir, you will come across many shikaras.  If you keenly see, one of the Shikara belongs to the India post, which serves as the one and only floating post office, not only in India but also in the world. This 200-year-old British-era post office had a facelift in 2011, to attract more visitors.

This post office offers regular postal services along with banking services.  The floating market vendors don't have to step out of their shikara to deposit their money or to connect with their loved ones.  The Postman hires a shikhara and delivers the letter to shikaras/houseboats.  This also serves as a Postal Museum, unfortunately, it was worst affected by the flood in 2014.  The letters posted here will carry a special pictorial cancellation of a man rowing a shikara, as shown below.

Thanks a lot, Muthu Krishna Kumar for this nice cancellation.