Re: Post Deliveries
Once upon a time mail trains would run regularly between the major cities. En-route they would pick up mail and also deliver mail without stopping. There was a special carriage attached to the train where Royal Mail sorters would sort the onboard coming mail and bag it if it were to be dropped off somewhere en-route.
Local trains would then take the mail on to the specified towns and also pick up. Then along came Beeching and privatisation and destroyed what was a very efficient way of sending and collecting mail from around the country.
They called it progress.
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