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Hey! Today, we're diving into some of the most wild and wacky mailboxes you’ve ever seen. Forget boring boxes - these mailboxes are basically front-yard celebrities! Ready to check them out?
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Imagine the first "letters" ever sent. Not paper with fancy writing, but little clay blobs with dots and lines. That’s right, ancient folks used baked clay tokens about 9,500 years ago to keep track of trades. Pretty cool start, huh?
Think of it as the OG mail system in the Bronze Age, where couriers carried these tokens like some ancient Amazon delivery.
Fast forward to 2400 BCE in Egypt - pharaohs had their own VIP mail system. Letters floated down the Nile in guarded boxes, because royal gossip waits for no one!
By 305 BCE, horses kicked mail delivery into high gear. Fancy express mail for the big shots and donkey-powered regular deliveries for everyone else. Early postal service, meet horsepower.
Envelopes didn’t start as paper - they were cloth, animal skins, or leaves. Then, in 1653 Paris, a guy named Jean-Jacques tried the first mailboxes with prepaid envelopes. Things got weird when someone dropped live mice in the mailboxes. Talk about a mail meltdown!
In 1680, William Dockwra launched the Penny Post with prepaid, hourly deliveries. Sadly, it got shut down for stepping on government toes. Postal drama, vintage edition.
And in 1759 Paris, Claude-Humbert tried starting a local postal system. The government quickly absorbed it but paid him off. Postal hustle has always been a wild game.
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