Isn’t it wonderful we have the internet, suddenly getting in contact with old friends is so easy. It used to take between 1 to 2 months for a letter to be received in America from a Third World Asian country. Even governments had to suffer inconveniences of postal services which are now appropriately termed “snail mail”. But please do not misjudge or undervalue postal service. It has its own uses.
A mid-19th Century man would have considered it supernatural to have his mails reach their destination and vice versa in seconds, in contrast to the modern person getting exasperated and frustrated not to be able to get his in 24 hours, a time span still “superfast” for the previous-century human being. It would have been stupefying and unfathomable for him to be able to send multiple “superfast mails” to a hundred different recipients all at the same time. He would …