Jamshedpur’s Arvind posts 21,075 postcards in a day, enters India Book of Records

Mail News Service

Jamshedpur, Dec 2: Arvind Prakash Nayak, a resident of Kadma, has created a record by posting 21,075 post cards in a day. His name has entered India Book of Records.

As per Nayak, he and his family posted the whopping number of postcards at Bistupur main postoffice on 29^th July last. He posted 10,100 postcards to Indian Army jawans and senior officials besides posting 7,575 postcards to the Prime Minister’s Office. He has also sent postcards to the collector and main postoffice of all districts and to IITs, IIMs and AIIMSes. The purpose of sending so many postcards is to express solidarity with the country’s defence personnel and senior officials, he said.

Arvind hails from Gariaband village of Chhatisgarh and is a senior manager in a private company. He is engaged in letter writing for the last two decades and has made it his aim to write one million letters in his lifetime.