The Chinese had a courier system more than 3000 year sago. To-day Chinese letter carriers each jogtrot about 35 miles a day over China’s vast over-land post service. Each courier carries about 70 pounds of mail suspended in bags from a pole that he balances acros his shoulder.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20887, 19 August 1939, Page 9
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