No knocking doors: In lockdown, India Post calls to say you've got mail

At this time of the year, post offices are noisy with agents hard-selling a range of tax-saving schemes to the last-minute investors. The week gone by was different. On Friday afternoon, at the ITO Post Office across the normally buzzing Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, a masked guard curtly said the timing had been changed to 10 am to 1 pm. In the pre-Covid days, it operated till 8 in the evening.

Surely the postmen, the lifeline of the country till Internet and mobile phones overtook the snail mail, were still around picking up and delivering letters and parcels? All 66