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I never knew they did twice daily deliver, time to google up some more info!

• _whiteCaps_ 6y ago
  http://500years.royalmailgroup.com/gallery/delivery-frequency/ http://500years.royalmailgroup.com/gallery/delivery-frequenc... In the UK it was up to 12 times / day in cities!
  • ghaff 6y ago
    To some degree, I'm sure it was a plot device but 19th century English novels often depended on rapid/same-day communications via letter at least in the environs of London.
    • eru 6y ago
      Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Penny_Post https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Penny_Post
    • hdjdbtbgwjsn 6y ago
      That was considered standard then in London. Royal Mail even had its own underground railways in London.
• Spooky23 6y ago
  It was more in some places. My grandma and aunt would mail letters like IMs in 1930s NYC.
  • codezero 6y ago
    I guess the telephone was able to replace a lot of those messages - and is possibly the reason they dialed back in the 1950s?
    • ghaff 6y ago
      Probably a reason. Also a lot of middle/upper class people were leaving cities in the US. Bike messenger services also were a big thing in cities a few decades ago. Email (and probably general acceptance of electronic scans) replaced a lot of shuffling around of paper documents. I was sort of amused a month or so back, when I had to do some financial transfers, a lot of the paperwork that would have formerly involved going into an office and getting notarized stamps could now happen with a combination of a phone call, mailed paperwork, and phone verification.