Yeah, no. I have thought about this but the problem is that the lay person cannot use a Telegraph. Yes, of course they can go to an office and send a telegraph message, but that's different because now that's clearly mediated and what I came up with is that the crucial thing is the lack of mediation.
If the UPU begins a thousand years earlier that falls by the same reasoning, a thousand years earlier too many people aren't literate, so they need to have their letter written by someone else, and the recipient must find someone to read it - but by the time of the UPU literacy is widespread.
If the UPU begins a thousand years earlier that falls by the same reasoning, a thousand years earlier too many people aren't literate, so they need to have their letter written by someone else, and the recipient must find someone to read it - but by the time of the UPU literacy is widespread.