Other systems Mail

the lombard street general post office in london, 1809.



plate commemorating launching site of first airmail carrier (1870) in metz, france.

another important postal service created in islamic world caliph mu awiyya; service called barid, name of towers built protect roads couriers traveled.

well before middle ages , during them, homing pigeons used pigeon post, taking advantage of singular quality of bird, when taken far nest able find way home due particularly developed sense of orientation. messages tied around legs of pigeon, freed , reach original nest.

mail has been transported quite few other methods throughout history, including dogsled, ski, balloon, rocket, mule, pneumatic tubes, , submarine.

charlemagne extended whole territory of empire system used franks in northern gaul , connected service of missi dominici.

many religious orders had private mail service. notably, cistercians had 1 connected more 6,000 abbeys, monasteries, , churches. best organization, however, created knights templar. newly instituted universities had private services, starting bologna (1158).

widespread illiteracy accommodated through service of scribes. illiterates needed communicate dictated messages scribe, profession quite disappeared.

in 1505, holy roman emperor maximilian established postal system in empire, appointing franz von taxis run it. thurn und taxis family, known tassis, had operated postal services between italian city states 1290 onward. following abolition of empire in 1806, thurn-und-taxis post system continued private organisation postage stamp era before being absorbed postal system of new german empire after 1871.

in 1716 correos y telégrafos established in spain public mail service, available citizens. delivery postmen first employed in 1756 , post boxes installed firstly in 1762.