The postal system is a system by which written documents typically enclosed in envelopes, and also small packages containing other matter, are delivered to destinations around the world. Anything sent through the postal system is called mail or post.

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magazine article: The Post. "For as long as humans have existed there has been a need to keep in touch, to transfer information between people in different places. " Read article

word game: "Post" words. Group words depending on which meaning of the word 'post' they relate to. Play game

poem: Travelling Post Office: This ballad by ‘Banjo’ Paterson shows what an enormous task it was delivering mail in a country as vast as Australia before modern technologies existed. Read poem

cartoon: "Do you enjoy working as a postman?" "Not really. It's very hard being given ..." See cartoon

trivia: Wordplay: After getting his master's degree, Bob, got a job as a postman, reconciling that he was still a man of letters. See more postal systems trivia

links: Wikipedia: mail See more links

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