# India Post URL: https://indialookup.net/indiapost/ Category: Postal List every post office under a 6-digit pincode - name, HO/SO/BO type, village, city, state - on a map. Guide to how PIN codes work and reading the result. ## Find post offices under a pincode This tool lists every post office India Post has registered under a 6-digit pincode - the office name, its type (HO, SO or BO), and the village, taluk, city and state it sits in - read from the Department of Posts directory through a trusted data source. The directory carries no coordinates, so each office is geocoded from its village, city and state after the lookup and plotted on one map. Click an office to zoom to it, share the result by URL, or download the list as a PDF. ## How to check 1. **Enter the pincode** - Six digits in the pincode bar - 624616. The line under it names the postal zone and sorting district as you type, and the office count at the end of the same field (1 to 50, default 50; type it or use the - and + buttons) caps how many offices the directory returns. 2. **Check** - The lookup asks the India Post directory for the offices under that pincode, then geocodes each one so it can be placed on the map; the pincode is mirrored into the URL so the result can be shared. 3. **Read the list and the map** - The headline shows the pincode with its city and state and the office count by type; tiles name the head office and count sub and branch offices. Beside the map, Post offices (count) lists every office, head office first, with type chips (All, Head, Sub, Branch) and a search box to narrow it. Selecting an office zooms the map to it, a pin click highlights its row, and Show all on map returns to the overview. Share sits above the result. ## What is the India Post pincode directory? The pincode directory is the Department of Posts' master list of every post office in India, keyed by the six-digit Postal Index Number (PIN) that routes mail to it. India Post - the Department of Posts under the Ministry of Communications, founded on 1 October 1854 - runs the largest postal network in the world: 1,64,999 post offices as of 31 March 2025, of which 1,49,385 are rural. Each office is classified as a Head Post Office (810), Sub Post Office (24,281) or Branch Post Office (1,39,908), and the directory records which pincode, division, region and circle it belongs to. The PIN system was introduced on 15 August 1972 by Shriram Bhikaji Velankar, then Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Communications, to replace manual sorting by place name with a numeric code that a sorter could read in one glance. The legal footing changed on 18 June 2024, when the Post Office Act, 2023 (assented 24 December 2023) came into force and repealed the Indian Post Office Act, 1898. Section 5 of the Act lets the Central Government prescribe standards for addressing, address identifiers and postcodes. Under the Post Office Rules, 2024 (G.S.R. 767(E), in force from 16 December 2024) Rule 11 makes the Director General of Postal Services responsible for managing, allocating and publishing postcodes and PIN codes. On 27 May 2025 the Department launched the Know Your PIN Code portal, which geo-fences the boundary of every pincode, and Know Your DIGIPIN, a 10-character grid code for a 4 m by 4 m square developed with IIT Hyderabad and NRSC-ISRO. DIGIPIN is an additional layer; as of September 2026 the six-digit pincode remains the routing code for all mail. ## How a pincode maps to post offices A PIN is hierarchical. The first digit is one of nine postal zones - 1 to 8 are geographic (1 Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal, J&K, Ladakh and Chandigarh; 2 Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand; 3 Rajasthan and Gujarat; 4 Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Goa; 5 Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka; 6 Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Lakshadweep; 7 West Bengal, Odisha, the North-East, Sikkim and the Andamans; 8 Bihar and Jharkhand) and 9 is the Army Postal Service. The second digit narrows to a sub-zone (in most cases one postal circle), the first three digits together identify the sorting district, and the last three digits identify the delivery post office - the office whose postmen carry the item to the door. One pincode, one delivery jurisdiction - but several offices can share a pincode. A sub office that delivers for an area usually has a cluster of branch offices in account with it, and those mostly single-employee rural offices carry the same pincode as their parent. That is why a rural pincode can return ten or twenty offices while a city pincode returns one or two. Administratively every office sits in a division, a region and one of 23 postal circles (plus a Base Circle for the Armed Forces), each under a Chief Postmaster General. 1. **Zone (digit 1)** - Mail is first sorted to one of the eight geographic zones or to the Army Postal Service (9). 2. **Sub-zone and sorting district (digits 2-3)** - Digits 1-3 identify the sorting district, usually the district headquarters office that receives the zone's mail for onward routing. 3. **Delivery office (digits 4-6)** - The last three digits name the office that delivers; 01 in the last two positions is conventionally the General or Head Post Office of the district. 4. **Office hierarchy** - A Head Office supervises Sub Offices, which supervise Branch Offices in account with them. Accounts, cash and supervision flow up this chain; mail flows down it. 5. **Directory entry** - Each office is registered with a name, type code, delivery or non-delivery status, taluk, district, state, division, region and circle. The directory feed exposes this list per pincode; this tool reads it and geocodes each office for the map. ## Why look up a pincode's post offices - **Catch a wrong pincode before it costs a return** - A parcel booked to the wrong pincode goes to the wrong sorting district and comes back as RTO. Checking that the pincode's offices sit in the expected village or city avoids the round trip. - **Know which office can serve you** - Only head and sub offices offer the full counter - Speed Post and parcel booking, savings schemes, PLI, IPPB banking. A pincode served only by branch offices means the nearest sub office is elsewhere. - **Standardise addresses** - Forms and KYC records ask for the post office name; using the spelling in the directory keeps the address matchable in bank, Aadhaar and courier systems. - **Plan a delivery network** - Operators building pincode serviceability lists need to know how many offices, and of what type, sit behind each pincode before agreeing service levels. ## Reading the result The result is a map of the geocoded offices beside a scrolling list of every office. Labels below are as they appear on the page and in the PDF. - **Pincode**: The six digits you searched, mirrored into the URL and used as the PDF headline. Anything other than six digits is rejected before the lookup runs. - **Office count**: How many offices the directory is asked for, 1 to 50 (the upstream cap). - **Post Offices (count)**: The heading over the list, with the number of distinct offices returned after duplicates are removed. - **Office name**: The office name as registered by India Post, in the list row and the PDF's Office Name column. Names carry suffixes such as B.O., S.O. or H.O. in India Post usage; use this spelling on forms. - **Type**: The badge on each row: HO (Head Post Office), SO (Sub Post Office) or BO (Branch Post Office). It describes the office's place in the supervisory chain, and by extension its counter services - BOs offer only basic booking and delivery. - **Village, Taluk, City, State**: The address line under the name, joined from the directory's village, taluk, city and state fields; blank parts are skipped. The PDF splits this into Village/Taluk, City and State columns. - **Selecting an office / Show all on map**: Selecting a row zooms the map to that office and opens its card; Show all on map returns to the overview of every located office. Locating on the map… means the geocoder is still working. - **Not on the map - place not found**: The village-city-state query returned no match in the geocoder. The office still exists; only its pin is missing, so its row cannot be selected. - **Map**: Every office the geocoder could place, one pin each, capped at 100 pins. Pins are the approximate location of the village or town, not the exact building - the directory has no coordinates. - **Type chips and search**: Head, Sub and Branch narrow the list to that office type and fit the map to those offices, dimming the rest; the search box matches office name, village or taluk. - **Download PDF / Share**: Download PDF builds a report headed by the pincode and office count with a five-column table; Share copies the URL, which re-runs the lookup for whoever opens it. ## Use cases - **Address validation before dispatch** - E-commerce and courier teams confirm a pincode on a label really belongs to the village, taluk or city written on it before booking a consignment. - **Choosing the right office for a booking** - Speed Post, registered post and parcel booking, savings accounts and IPPB services are offered at head and sub offices, not at every branch office - the type badge tells you which office to walk into. - **Serviceability and rate cards** - Logistics operators map pincodes to delivery offices to decide serviceability and build zone-based rate cards, then price the parcel with the India Post rate tool. - **KYC and form filling** - Bank, insurance and government forms ask for the post office name alongside the pincode; this list gives the exact spelling India Post uses. ## Common problems - **No post offices found for a pincode I know is real** - Check for a transposed digit first. Pincodes are created, merged and retired as offices open and close, and the directory feed can lag; confirm on India Post's Know Your PIN Code portal or the All India Pincode Directory on data.gov.in, which is refreshed monthly. - **Only one office appears but I expected the whole area** - Urban pincodes usually have a single delivery office. Neighbouring localities are under their own pincodes - search each one. If the office count was lowered, set it back to 50. - **An office says Not on the map** - The geocoder could not match the village and city names; hyphenated or transliterated names are the usual cause. Run the lookup again to retry; if it still fails, find it from the address line on any map. - **The pin is in the wrong place** - Pins are placed from the village or town name, so two villages with the same name in one state can be confused. Treat the map as a locality guide and rely on the address line. - **I need to know if the office delivers, its hours or phone number** - Delivery status, timings and contact details are not in this list. India Post's post office locator carries delivery status; for timings and complaints call India Post customer care on 1800 266 6868 (agents 8:00 to 20:00, IVRS round the clock, per the India Post Contact Us page) or use the CRM portal at crm.indiapost.gov.in. ## FAQ **Q: What do the six digits of a pincode mean?** The first digit is the postal zone (1 to 8 geographic, 9 for the Army Postal Service), the second a sub-zone, the first three together the sorting district, and the last three the delivery post office. The system dates from 15 August 1972. **Q: Do I need an account to use this post office lookup?** No. You can use it straight away - listing post offices under a pincode does not require an account. **Q: Why does my pincode show no post offices?** Usually a mistyped digit, or a pincode that has been merged or retired. Check the six digits, then confirm the pincode on India Post's Know Your PIN Code portal or the data.gov.in directory. **Q: Why does one pincode list so many offices?** Branch offices share the pincode of the sub office they are in account with, so a rural pincode can carry a dozen or more offices. Roughly 85 per cent of India's 1,64,999 post offices are branch offices. **Q: What do HO, SO and BO mean?** Head Post Office, Sub Post Office and Branch Post Office - the office's place in India Post's supervisory chain. Head and sub offices offer the full counter; branch offices, mostly rural and run by a Gramin Dak Sevak, offer basic services. **Q: Which of the listed offices delivers to my address?** Each pincode has one delivery jurisdiction, but this list does not show the delivery flag. India Post's post office locator marks each office as Delivery or Non-Delivery; branch offices in the list deliver within their own village. **Q: Why is an office missing from the map?** The directory has no coordinates, so each office is geocoded from its village, city and state after the lookup. If that fails for one office, its row shows Not on the map - running the lookup again retries it. **Q: Why does it show at most 50 offices?** The India Post directory service behind this tool returns at most 50 offices per request. Almost every pincode has fewer than that. **Q: Does DIGIPIN replace the pincode?** No. DIGIPIN, launched on 27 May 2025, is a 10-character code for a 4 m by 4 m square that pins an exact location; the six-digit pincode still identifies the delivery office and is still required on mail. India Post describes DIGIPIN as an additional addressing layer. **Q: Can I book Speed Post at any office in the list?** Speed Post, running since 1 August 1986, is booked at head and sub offices and at Speed Post centres; most branch offices do not book it. Pick an office with an HO or SO badge, or check India Post's locator. ## Glossary - **PIN**: Postal Index Number - the six-digit code introduced on 15 August 1972 that routes mail to a delivery post office. - **Head Post Office (HO)**: The accounting and supervisory office for a group of sub and branch offices; offers every counter service. 810 in the country as of 31 March 2025. - **Sub Post Office (SO)**: A departmental office under a Head Office that handles most services and supervises the branch offices in account with it. - **Branch Post Office (BO)**: A small, usually rural office run by a Gramin Dak Sevak, offering basic booking, delivery and savings services; 1,39,908 of the 1,64,999 offices. - **Delivery office**: The office whose staff deliver mail to addresses in its area; non-delivery offices only book and forward. Each pincode has one delivery jurisdiction. - **Sorting district**: The area identified by the first three digits of a PIN, where mail for that district is sorted for onward delivery. - **Postal circle**: The top administrative unit of India Post - 23 circles plus a Base Circle for the Armed Forces, each under a Chief Postmaster General, divided into regions and divisions. - **DIGIPIN**: Digital Postal Index Number - an open-source 10-character code for a 4 m by 4 m grid cell, launched 27 May 2025 with IIT Hyderabad and NRSC-ISRO; it supplements, not replaces, the PIN. Related: [All tools](https://indialookup.net/) · [llms.txt](https://indialookup.net/llms.txt)