| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Remembering a pre -plastic packaging age | |
| Posted by: | David Ainsworth | |
| Date/Time: | 15/10/19 18:40:00 |
| Victorians didn't need the web. The mistress of the house could write and post a postcard to her butcher in the morning ordering the meat for dinner, and the meat would be bicycled round in the afternoon to her house for her cook to prepare the evening meal. I don't actually remember this, but I read it many years ago. ---------------------- ""In London, people complained if a letter didn't arrive in a couple of hours,"¯ said Catherine J. Golden, a professor of English at Skidmore College and author of "Posting It: The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing"¯ (2009)." http://mentalfloss.com/article/24089/victorian-mail-delivery-12-times-each-day |