Show mail service older than christian era communications wore were sent from town to town by more or OP less leas regular service in the reign of cyrus the groat persian conqueror years bo be fore the christian era your centuries later queen jezebel wrote letters an and d sent them throughout tho the jewish kingdom to which slie she affix ed the namo name of king hing ahab and sealed them with tho the kings seal in tho the dook book of esther mention la Is modo of sending letters by po pot post t throughout tho the royal provinces about tho the beginning of the first century augustus tho the great romah emperor established a system of communication muni cation throughout the empire marco alarco polo the venetian traveler reported that us ay long ngo ago as 1280 china had no less than post stations the term terin post as applied to a system of mall mail transportation had its origin in france in the sixteenth cen tury where a general system of communication mun muni cation leation was waa set up by the government detroit news |