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Kerala’s Cool New ‘Gen Z’ Post Office Was Built Entirely by Students — Right on Their Campus

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On a breezy morning at CMS College in Kottayam, students gather around picnic benches, the sun slips through tall trees, and someone drops a handwritten letter into a bright red box beside a reading nook and an upcycled tyre seat. It looks like a campus hangout corner where friends meet between classes.

Only later do you realise: this is a post office.

Welcome to Kerala’s first Gen Z Post Office, a space that feels youthful, creative, and surprisingly warm for a place long associated with stiff counters and silent queues.

India Post has reimagined one of its oldest public services by opening a Gen Z Post Office extension counter at CMS College, Kottayam. Inaugurated on 9 December 2025, the project stands out because the entire space was imagined, designed, and built by CMS College students in........

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