Grey Wolf
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Trying to create a postal service with no door-to-door deliveries for a story. I have this:-
Every railway station has a branch of the Post Office where parcels, packages, letters etc are delivered by the mail trains and await picking up by people. At the same time, the branches serve as a place where parcels, packages and letters can be posted onto the mail trains.
There is no delivery service
There are private courier firms, some work on a local basis, others a national basis. Some will pick up your letter and deliver it to the recipient where-ever they are. Some will simply put it into the postal service, and at the other end another private courier will pick it up and deliver it to the destination.
However, I can't work out how in a world of c 1920s technology people in a town would KNOW there was something that they had to collect from the post office, since most people do not have a telephone, and there's no point having a delivery service for letters telling you to go and collect a letter!
Beset Rearguards
Grey Wolf
Every railway station has a branch of the Post Office where parcels, packages, letters etc are delivered by the mail trains and await picking up by people. At the same time, the branches serve as a place where parcels, packages and letters can be posted onto the mail trains.
There is no delivery service
There are private courier firms, some work on a local basis, others a national basis. Some will pick up your letter and deliver it to the recipient where-ever they are. Some will simply put it into the postal service, and at the other end another private courier will pick it up and deliver it to the destination.
However, I can't work out how in a world of c 1920s technology people in a town would KNOW there was something that they had to collect from the post office, since most people do not have a telephone, and there's no point having a delivery service for letters telling you to go and collect a letter!
Beset Rearguards
Grey Wolf