Show EARLY-DAY EARLY POSTAL SERVICE Devices Employed Seem Seam Crude Now but They Served the th Purpose Centuries Ago Most people regard the post aa as a modern institution yet this Is 1 not to so for regular postal services have haye e- e Isted for tor more than two thousand 1 years rs One of ot the earliest system systems for tor the tho delivery of ot letters was wai established by P Persia more than two centuries before be be- fore toro the Christian era In In- those days letters were wore not writ welt ton on paper paper The They took the form e lEt of short sticks on which a message wa wu was Inscribed either bj by means ef of paint paints or by burning it on with a kind of primitive work poker-work outfit Tb letters betters were delivered by rel regular lar relays relays re re- lays of or postmen over thousands thousand a e emiles of ef miles of ot countr country Even Enn the telegraph was In use la a crude form torm Messages could be seat eat BeatIn In an hour or two over distances tf of hundreds ef of miles mUes by means meau of a aye tern of shouters houters who passed them ea se eafrom from ene one to th the lb ether ther |