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I lived in the UK in the '90s, and at least back then, they still had twice-daily delivery. Even more impressive, in many cases you'd get same-day delivery of
by snogglethorpe 14y ago
I lived in the UK in the '90s, and at least back then, they still had twice-daily delivery. Even more impressive, in many cases you'd get same-day delivery of normal mail to addresses at the other end of the country.
One very memorable experience I had was sending a check in the mail to London, from Edinburgh, in the morning, and then receiving in return the ordered merchandise in the evening of the same day!!
[Those two cities are very major destinations and so mail between them is presumably well-optimized, but I was pretty flabbergasted that this was possible...]
- justincormack 14y agoA friend told me his father used to read the newspaper walking to work then post it back to his wife who would get it at lunchtime. This was London perhaps in the 1930s.