Show indent ancient nall aall service it lai has been dovin roi that till nil romance passed out ut u the mail in ml s service ervice with the iho old posting d days ya this inay bu be truo true but it is is altru aldu a net fact that slit HU interest is to t be in the in fatic of bettor writing for the sat of the curious carion i the Bucien tB bad no convenient postal arrange an a fact easily accounted for by the be poverty of their writing materials us no neither the llie waxen tablets used by P uit ioD nor the leudon leadon p abet upon poll which the pilgrims wrote questions when they consulted the oracle of were of a suitable 8 bra for transportation ice r first stop toward portable writ ins ing material lay in the adoption of the papyrus but for a ion long time after that tha t n mankind anki ad seemed little inclined toward an interchange of written thought the tha real origin of lotier letter writing waa was in in E gyps and th tho 0 t two we forms of letters first brat la in use w wore ore RD an open shoot sheet ond and a closed roll the two most progressive states of anti equity hoW however tover the persian and ro be nan man 1 rp abo first to attempt atte in pt y s t e m a i n i ahe b 0 m mail u il s bernico Ber vico rome to m p probably r 0 b a bl y f followed 0 li ga w e d t the b e 1 lead ery dicapo ut persia r ain in the matter and the origin of 0 the chius or public pott post 1 system t la is traced back to the timo time of I augustus gus according to this thin arrangement a system of communication which was wall rapid for those days was waa effected be tween all parts of the empire between one manno or station to an other was a days journey and at each of at these points fort forty Y mules were a at t all aimis tim 38 k kept 9 p t st standing a in ID readi read ile ness as for travel the mutations which were between tl the nans mans iones were intended simply for the ex change ot of horse sand not as a shelter for travelers and here also twenty Y animals were always waiting during the ages no gou gen oral eral poi postal tall communication communicate ion was pro pre served e ry ad Is as letter writing had quite fallen into disuse only tife monks still practiced it and the he monasteries mana manas teries and universities became the only postal stations of the time ot of course no convenient postal arrangement could exist without reference to somo some c dentral department or and consequently s none nona was waa successfully at tomter tempted na all long as the empires of the middle liddle ages agea coun isted merely of independent states held field boget to together get by lq a loose feudal system france first attempted a uniform postal 0 stal system which under lonia loni a XV V reached quite a respectable i con still tho the postage was estr ava gantly high and tho the secrecy of a cor respond eDio erce was waa so BO little respected that people did not take the trouble to seal their letters but merely fas toned them together with needles maxim was well known and also the coolness with which he be acted upon it sire if one wishes to know what there its is in in a letter A A bien one must open it and read I 1 P in modern times till all the appliances of science science have been pressed into the bervice of expediting the mails there ar are estill still peculiar r methods ghods of transit in british india ITO tha pods is is the vehicle of the carrier the camel bears tho the mail through the desert and the reindeer rein deor effects corn com muni cation among the frozen regions of the north companion |