Made A Fortune
[Specially written for “The Press’'
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KENNETH ANTHONY]
ONE of the most remarkable private-enterprise postal systems on record was that run by Giacomo Muzzi, a capable and energetic Italian who lived in Egypt a century ago.
To understand how he was able to make his fortune in a foreign land it is necessary to take a backward glance to the somewhat chaotic conditions prevailing in 19th-century Egypt There was no national post office at all until 1866, and the first public postal service, operated by an Italian, was started in 1820. In time it became known as the Posta Europea. Muzzi, an employee of this organisation, was taken into partnership and then became its proprietor. Thn uhc run «?n
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31071, 28 May 1966, Page 12
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