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India Post Exam Calendar: What Aspirants Should Expect This Year
12 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
Every year, the Department of Posts releases recruitment notifications in waves rather than all at once. Understanding that rhythm is the difference between a rushed application and a prepared one.
Historically, MTS and Postman/Mail Guard notifications appear in the first half of the year, with PA/SA cycles following. Circle-level vacancies for Tamil Nadu are published alongside the central notification, so it is worth tracking both sources.
Our advice is simple: build your preparation calendar backwards from the expected exam date, not forward from today. Reserve the final four weeks entirely for revision and full-length mocks — no new topics.
PRIME publishes every notification, corrigendum and result on the day it is released, with a Tamil summary so nothing is missed in translation.
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