About the book: 2022 / The development of mail as a system for transmitting correspondence took hundreds of years, and for this man adapted many of his inventions. So from pigeon mail or signal smoke from fires we came to the delivery of correspondence by drones and email. The ancient Greek historian Herodotus said: “Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor the darkness of the night will keep the couriers from completing their destined journey as quickly as possible.” These words so accurately reflect the main mission of the postal service that they have become the unofficial motto of the US Postal Service. In our book you will find many interesting facts and learn: that such a hobby as collecting postcards ranks third in popularity throughout the world; that the service for reading other people’s letters is called “Black Office”; that people send more than 267 billion emails every day; that in Russia there was a special breed of horses for postal troikas - the Vyatka horse. Gogol wrote about it, comparing Rus' with a troika bird... Did you know that there is underwater mail, disaster mail, tram mail?! Read about this and much more on the pages of this fascinating book. The publishing layout of the book is saved in PDF A4 format.