STOP PRESS: It takes 11 days for a mailed letter to travel one kilometre

By Denis Gregory
Updated December 7 2017 - 11:01am, first published 11:00am
TURNING BACK THE CLOCK: Pigeons played a critical part in the first and second World Wars delivering military messages in times of radio silence.
TURNING BACK THE CLOCK: Pigeons played a critical part in the first and second World Wars delivering military messages in times of radio silence.

It would be great to turn back the clock and restore the Travelling Post Office vans – known as TPOs – on trains, with 74 specially-selected mail workers sorting letters along the way.

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