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WW1: How did 12 million letters a week reach soldiers?

 
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 3:48 pm    Post subject: WW1: How did 12 million letters a week reach soldiers? Reply with quote
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I saw this story http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25934407 and found it fascinating-hope you do too. There’s a particularly poignant bit concerning Gallipoli
Ian McCracken


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PostPosted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 6:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yeah, i heard the jeremy vine show today where it was discussed, they had folk phone up and read bits of letters their ancestors wrote home from the front.

An amazing feat.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 09, 2014 3:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
It is amazing what they did then.
The postal service we have today is an extortionate shambles by comparision, especially if you live in NB. It was better when Dick Turpin was about.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 09, 2014 3:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Another thing i heard on the radio was a foreigner mentioning something he had been notified of, in the evening mail.......
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