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USPS was probably much more adamant about delivering lost mail in the 1950s. The level of service was higher, with twice daily delivery.
by wtn 6y ago
USPS was probably much more adamant about delivering lost mail in the 1950s. The level of service was higher, with twice daily delivery.
- codezero 6y agoI never knew they did twice daily deliver, time to google up some more info!
- _whiteCaps_ 6y agohttp://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 agoTo 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 agoCompare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Penny_Post https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Penny_Post
- hdjdbtbgwjsn 6y agoThat was considered standard then in London. Royal Mail even had its own underground railways in London.
- Spooky23 6y agoIt was more in some places. My grandma and aunt would mail letters like IMs in 1930s NYC.
- codezero 6y agoI 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 agoProbably 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.