USED ROCKETS TO DELIVER THE MAIL!

[Dave Monroe]

On 10/6/09, Don Antenen <dantenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Check out the stamp:
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> http://www.ultrabrown.com/posts/the-rocket-post-of-sikkim
>
> Rocketgrams.  Incredible.

"... in order ... that business communications be accelerated and
multiplied at least within the boundaries of the civilized world, we
propose a projectile or cannonball express: an institution that, with
suitably situated artillery stations placed within firing range of
each other, would discharge, from mortars or howitzers, hollow shells,
which have been stuffed full not of powder, but letters and packages,
and which could very easily be observed in flight, and wherever they
might fall, short of some morass, be retrieved ..."

--Heinrich von Kleist, "Useful Inventions: Project for a Cannonball
Postal System" (1810)

"This is the new, and still most secret German bomb.
   "'Incoming Mail.'" (GR, Pt. I, p. 6)

"... and now Pirate knows where this morning's rocket landed, and why
there was no explosion.  Incoming mail, indeed."  (GR, Pt. I, p. 11)

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