Post Office

An inn is generally a hostel providing overnight lodging for travelers. In older days, inns were used as places for exchanging instruments and transmission of military information among officials. China was the world’s first country to establish the transmission of information among its organizations by mail. Despite its 3,000 years of history, there were not many artifacts that were retained.

It was recorded in most historical facts that the founder of the post office was the king of Persia,Cyrus the Greek. Cyrus the Great ruled a vast empire, where the officials needed to spend considerable time in delivering letters and messages. In order to meet with the needs of the imperial rule, Cyrus the Great gave an order to build a number of inns. These inns were spaced a certain distance apart. Horses were kept and taken care of in these inns. The officials traveled with these horses to pass courier and messages between the inns. These inns were the early post offices.

In the reign of Augustus, the Romans changed the early inns into more formal public inns. These inns were generaly set up along main roads. They were equipped with fit and healthy horses, as well as accommodation for the officials. These inns could be considered as the origin of post offices as they carry a number of features of today’s modern postal system.

Food for Thought :

People in the old days realized the importance of communication and thus the postal system was created to make the long distance transmission of information easier.

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