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Vanished Mailways and Postal Relics
Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
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Across
  • 1. Scheduled delivery route for postal workers
  • 3. Horse-drawn carriage used for transporting letters in 18th century
  • 5. Animals once relied on for airborne message delivery
  • 7. Official mark showing date and place of mailing
  • 8. Person responsible for delivering letters directly to homes
  • 11. Term related to the quickest mail delivery route of the past
  • 12. Officials who carried royal or official mail in medieval times
  • 16. Manual used to encrypt messages in some old postal services
Down
  • 2. Messenger service before modern postal systems
  • 4. Enclosed litter used for messages in parts of Asia
  • 6. Early electronic method rivaling postal services
  • 9. Tool once used to mark letters by postal clerks
  • 10. Container used to transport letters in old mail systems
  • 13. Famous American horse-based mail service (short form)
  • 14. Carts used historically for local post delivery
  • 15. Multiple messengers used in early postal networks
  • 17. Early signal station used to alert postal riders
  • 18. Group of postal riders organized for faster delivery

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