Re: Signals - the Royal Mail


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Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on June 23, 2004 at 08:17:18 from 62.253.32.5 user Laurence_.

In Reply to: Re: Signals-other media for communications posted by Ed Kiser on June 23, 2004 at 02:24:27:

Note that the postcard in CC and the GA's letter got delivered early the next day after posting - both to houses deep in rural areas. In fact that was slow for that time. My parents when courting in London in the 1930s used to send postcards in the morning to arrange where they would meet that same evening.

And the telegram in CC - delivered to Beccles Quay and forwarded to Oulton Broad after the telegraph boy had found that the Teasel had left and made enquiries about her destination - was the sort of positively helpful public service we don't get today.

We may have mobile phones - a very mixed blessing - but other things have got worse.


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