On 12/03/2014 20:51, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 20:36:47 on
Wed, 12 Mar 2014, Peter Masson
remarked:
How it used to be:
When my grandparents were courting, before WW1, my grandfather was in
the Army, and didn't know until during the morning whether he'd be
free to meet my grandmother that evening - so he'd send her a postcard
which would be delivered during the afternoon. This was in Cork.

In London in the 40's you could post a letter in the morning informing
someone you'd be round for afternoon tea.

Although to be fair, why would anyone want to do that nowadays? It's a
bit like the demise of passenger services on canals when the railways
came along.

People from before WWI would no doubt have spent all day sending each
other cat videos instead of postcards had the technology existed.


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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK