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Getting the Message
Getting the Message: The Story of the British Post Office | Christopher Browne
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The history of the British Post Office from its beginnings as a royal service to the arrival of telegraph and telephone.
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I was thinking about Sense and Sensibility one day, and remembering Marianne running around that London townhouse hoping for a letter from Willoughby. That made me start looking up info on the penny & two-penny post. This is the only book I could find that is exclusively focused on the subject. It‘s not great, but it had the info and many of the stories I had hoped to find; thus, it‘s a worthwhile read.

Hamlet When the Royal Mail was first extended to all the people, the recipient of a letter had to pay the postage, not the sender. Can you imagine?! 2y
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