This fascinating book takes young readers back through the ages. The author begins the history of the post with cave paintings and the first messenger couriers in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Ancient Greece. We learn what postal communication was like in Ancient Rome, medieval Europe, and Russia, what the first mailbox looked like, and how envelopes and postage stamps came to be. A separate chapter is devoted to the triangular field post bags of the Great Patriotic War era. The book concludes with an account of electronic mail, which is used everywhere in the modern world.
