Indeed. In fact if you look at some the Sherlock Holmes stories by A.
Doyle, you will see Holmes making use of the London mail to send
messages and expect to receive answers only a few hours later. At the
time, the post in London made as many as six deliveries a day, so it
was reasonable to expect that correspondence could be exchanged within
hours.
Eric
On Saturday, August 9, 2003, at 07:07 PM, Sven Kilian wrote:
> Hi Juergen,
>
> this is a cool story, I like it and think its not far off at all.
> Basically
> human behaviours don't change so much, just the ways change.
>
> I think thats not only valid for Japan, if we look in European history
> we
> will recognise the same pattern (eg Messenger etc.).
>
> Sven
Received on Mon Aug 11 05:10:47 2003