As of 31 March 2011, the Indian Postal Service has 154,866 post offices, of which 139,040 (89.78%) are in rural areas and 15,826 (10.22%) are in urban areas. It has 25,464 departmental PO s and 129,402 ED BPOs. At the time of independence, there were 23,344 post offices, which were primarily in urban area. Indian Postal Service has a total of 4,66,903 (As of 31 March 2011)Employees that include,

588 Group-A Officers

3573 Group-B Gazetted Officers

3460 Group-B Non Gazetted:3460

1,70,748 Group-C(excluding M T S)

30,678 Group-C (M T S) Officers

Total = 2,09,047 Departmental Employees + 2,57,856 G D S Employees = 4,66,903 Employees

(Source : wikipedia)