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ROMAN MAIL

LIVING LIKE AN ANCIENT CORRESPONDING ACROSS THE EMPIRE

Ancient Rome had no universal postal service and how a letter travelled to its recipient depended greatly on the status of the sender. At the top of the mailing list was the Roman emperor and his functionaries. For them, an efficient mail service was not a matter of exchanging social niceties but an essential component of a functional empire. As aRome had a dedicated courier service – the – which carried imperial mail to the far corners of the empire.

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