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Encyclopedia Britannica



POST

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 176 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: POL-PRE
POST , and POSTAL SERVICE. The germ of modern postal systems is to be looked fcr in the earliest organized
establishment
  of a staff of government couriers. In the postal
system
  of Spain and the German empire there is express
record
  of permission to government couriers to carry letters for individuals in April 1544; and within fifteen or sixteen years that permission had grown into a legalized and regulated monopoly, whence the
counts
  of Taxis drew
part
  of their profits as postmasters-general. In
Great
  Britain existing private letters of the 15th centurysome, perhaps, of the 14thbear endorsements which show that they were conveyed by relays of men and horses maintained under the
control
  of the government, and primarily intended for its
special
  service. In several states on the continent of Europe the universities had inland postal establishments of a rudimentary sort at an early date. The university of Paris organized a postal service almost at the beginning of the 13th century, and it lasted in a measure until 1719. In various parts of Europe mercantile gilds and brotherhoods were licensed to establish posts for commercial purposes. But everywhereas far as the accessible evidence extendsforeign posts were under state
control
 .


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