10 interesting facts about mail

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10 INTERESTING
FACTS ABOUT MAIL
LUDCHIK NIKITA

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FACT 1
•Such a hobby as collecting postcards
with different pictures is the third most
popular worldwide. The first two places
belong to collecting coins and postage
stamps.

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FACT 2
•The world's largest collection of
postage stamps belonged to US
President Franklin Roosevelt and Indian
President Jawaharlal Nehru.

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FACT 3
•The oldest post office in the world
(among the still operating ones) began
operating in 1712, it is located in the
city of Sanquier in Scotland.

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FACT 4
• In 1917, a bank in Utah was built with
80,000 bricks that were mailed via
USPS in 50-pound packages to save on
freight costs.

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FACT 5
•Until 1953, NYC had a
pneumatic tube mail network
that spanned 27 miles and
connected 23 post offices. Each
tube could carry between 400
and 600 letters and traveled at
30-35 miles per hour.

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FACT 6
•Around 6,000 mailmen get chased,
attacked or bitten by dogs each year.

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FACT 7
•In the 17th and 18th centuries in
England, there was a position of a royal
opener of bottles with letters caught in
the open sea. Everyone else who
opened such bottles on their own was
entitled to the death.

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FACT 8
•Due to confusion in their names, the
staff of Slovak and Slovenian embassies
meets once a month to exchange
wrongly addressed mail.

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FACT 9
•Sean Bean gets fan mail intended for
Rowan Atkinson who played “Mr. Bean”

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FACT 10
•London post offices still accept letters
addressed to Sherlock Holmes, who
lives at 221B Baker Street.