Timeline for Could someone who sent a letter in 19th century London expect a reply within 2 hours?
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| May 28, 2017 at 16:59 | comment | added | David Richerby | @Floris But the definition you quote is about a courier coming to your house, giving you a letter and waiting there while you wrote your reply. Sure, the postman would pick up any letters you'd written, but wouldn't stand there waiting for you to reply to a letter that he'd just given you: his job was to provide service to your whole district, not just to you. | |
| May 27, 2017 at 15:48 | comment | added | Fattie | "one would mark the envelope as such and the messenger would..." this QA has nothing to do with messengers, it is about the Royal Mail. | |
| May 27, 2017 at 15:42 | comment | added | Floris | @Fattie except that the mail man came to your house several times a day and would "by return of post" come back to pick up letters as well. Yes you could drop them into a box - no you didn't have to. Just as even today the mail in the US is picked up from the mail box (while you can take the mail to a dedicated letter box you don't have to). This continued past the time of dedicated (point to point) couriers. | |
| May 27, 2017 at 15:24 | comment | added | Fattie | This is wrong and completely unrelated. The normal, ordinary post service ("dropping letters in to your box" - no connection whatsoever to courier delivery, individual messenger service, etc) was (surprisingly) incredibly better in that era than today. | |
| May 24, 2017 at 17:04 | history | edited | Floris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 23, 2017 at 22:28 | history | answered | Floris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |