History of the Postal System
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Postal history is the study of postal systems and how they operate and, or, the study of the use of postage stamps and covers and associated postal artifacts illustrating historical episodes in the development of postal systems.
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The Postal System Evolutionary Rudiments of Old Tech…
The Postage System in a Nutshell
Think a quick, efficient and lucid means of exchange!
The Postal system is a textbook example of communication that encompasses a whole score of frontiers.
The child-play concept of letters bound by their stamps, destined by their addresses and fulfilled by their destination. A technology that spans the traditional and preserves the rich and venerable practice of communication by any means.
A process, a very contraption that forms the routes and roots from sender to receiver. Mail is universal and immemorial; whether it’s the latest scoop of ‘National Geographic’ or the ‘OVERDUE’ bills to pay…
A Brief History of Postage
1. The maiden usage of postage dates back to antiquity and oversees the use of skins, cloths and even vegetable parts!
2. A Frenchman, De Valayer, devises a network of mailboxes in Paris in 1653. A competitor placed live mice in the boxes, making them unpopular!
A Brief History of Postage-2
3. An English school master pioneers the postage stamp in the 1840s. He is knighted for his ingenious use of prepayment in postage…
4. Aaron Montgomery commissions the first mail catalog in 1872. It featured a simple sheet of paper and a price list.
5. The first electronic mail in sorter is invented by Dr. Maurice Levy. It boasted an efficiency of 200,000 letters per hour.
Marrying Tech and Postage
Early postage was limited to the parameters of human intervention.
