# How often did the Royal Mail deliver during the Victorian Era?

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**Created:** [March 13, 2006, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-did-the-royal-mail-deliver-during-the-victorian-era/348109 "2006-03-13T00:44:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-did-the-royal-mail-deliver-during-the-victorian-era/348109/21 "2006-03-16T15:14:06Z")

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> [@Rayne Man](#):
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> But don’t forget, because there was no telephone, the majority of personal communication was via the mail. I would think that most people in Victorian times (at least the educated ones) wrote many more letters compared to today. So the volume of mail would be high.

I once read a story, perhaps apocryphal, about a British gentleman’s reaction to the invention of the telephone: “The Americans might need this invention, but we do not. We have plenty of errand boys.”

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