Excerpt from The Story of the Post Office: Containing a History of the World's Postal Service, With Interesting Accounts of Ancients Methods of Carrying the MailsThe birth of postal communication, like that of so many of our greatest blessings, is lost in obscurity.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.