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The postal system is a way of transporting correspondence in the

form of letters or cards, and other packages across distances. Emperors used a form of postal services to govern their kingdoms from as
early as 550 BC but the service was not always available to the
public.

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Private courier services were available at a high cost to the public

but by the mid 19th century governments began to monopolise the
post as a national service and the system of post as we know it today
was born. Trains played a huge part in the formation of this system
of correspondence because governments, or colonials whichever
the case may be, used an existing network of transporting goods to
transport messages faster than a horse could carry.

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The most basic form of post is an envelope or postal card that is

issued by the post office that is pre-stamped with the exact cost of
transporting the message. This differs from a postcard that is simply
a rectangular piece of thick paper that you can use to write and mail
a message without an envelope. It can be made of card stock or a
light-weight cardboard and is most often 6 inches long and 4.25
inches wide.

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Postal cards were initially made so people were looking for an economical way to send messages. They were so simple to make that as
early as the 1870's in The United States of America and India, the
post office itself sold pre-stamped cards for people to write on and
mail across vast distances. This system proved extremely lucrative
and helped establish a large postal service using the growing rail
systems of the British Raj. It also remains to date the cheapest form
of post in India.
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Originally postal cards were designed to have the sender and

receivers address in one quarter of the card while the rest was for
writing. The popularity and cheap cost of sending a postcard, at the
same time as the dawn of photography that captures images of the
Eiffel Tower being constructed led to the modern picture postcard.

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So popular is the tradition of postcards that the there is a branch of

knowledge dedicated to it called deltiology. It is the third largest
hobby in the world after philately (stamp collecting) and numastics
(collecting coins or bank notes). Picture postcards are valuable because they tell historical societies and librarians how a town or city
looked, as well as the social history of the place.

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