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   From: HenHanna@dev.null   
      
   [Deliver the letter, the sooner the better] ---- this phrase is older   
   than the 1961 song? ("Please Mr. Postman")?   
      
      
      
   Deliver the letter, the sooner the better   
          --------- Is it possible that this phrase is much older than   
   1961?   
      
      
   >>>  Written in 1961, Please Mr Postman was the debut single for the   
   >>> Marvellettes and the first Motown song to top the US Hot 100 charts.   
      
   The Beatles famously covered it in 1963, and the Carpenters in 1975   
      
      
      
   __________________________________(from a magazine (?) in 1914)   
      
   Outlook - Volume 106 - Page 196   
   books.google.com › books   
   Alfred Emanuel Smith, ‎Francis Walton · 1914   
      
   Found inside – Page 196   
      
                >>> ... I'd say post that letter, the sooner the better. If   
   a man can't control himself before he ... give you the rest of it , Pete   
   , " and he drew from his pocket a letter ... Send her your sales sheets   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)