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   From: ExcelFreak@FakeAddress.com   
      
   In article , michael0658@comcast.net says...   
   >  The emperors invented the   
   > > posts to move couriers and messages at the fastest possible speed.   
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   Invented. Huh. They may have independently   
   developed such system, but earlier than   
   those days Darius the First developed an   
   efficient communication system to handle   
   information across an empire from India to   
   Egypt. This was about 1000 years earlier   
   than the Romans! The socalled "Chapars" were   
   stationed within a horse ride of each other   
   everywhere across the realm and carried   
   written messages from one to another at the   
   fastest pace a horse was capable to carry   
   them. Even today their remnants still exist   
   in Iran in the form of "carwanserays",   
   scattered all over the country.   
      
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