Of the different types of communication services of antiquity, the most notable was the relay system of the Persian Empire. Riders on horseback carrying written messages from a relay station to another. Based on this system, the Romans developed their own system of posts (from the Latin positus, 'post'), whence the term "postal service." In the Far East were also used similar systems.
Although in medieval Europe, postal services were mostly private, the rise of nationalism after the Renaissance led to the emergence of governmental postal systems. In the late eighteenth century was gone most of the services private.
transportation of written message originated the word "mail" that comes from running, and that currently define public service which carries the official correspondence, private, and established in all countries, makes getting to your destination, by land, air or water such correspondence in the form of letters, postcards, prints and packages.
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