Post haste
Subtitle: a tale of Her Majesty's mails
By: by R.M. Ballantyne
Publisher: Vision Forum, Inc.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: San Antonio, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
ISBN-13: 9781934554173
Subjects: Postal service; Juvenile fiction; Letter carriers; Postes; Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse; Facteurs (Postes)
Description: "In this adventure in merry, old England, the reader is taken back to the beginning days of the General Post-Office, learning about the founding of the mail system. In the 1800's, guaranteeing a letter to delivery was a bit of a challenge, as Phillip Maylands, his sister Mary, and their friend George Aspel quickly find out. Though the British Post-Office at this time delivered in good condition over fourteen hundred million letters, a half-dozen important ones addressed to Messr. Blurt and Co. are missing! Our friends must take on the role of detective to trace the mysterious disappearance."--Visionforum.com
Notes: Reprinted from the 1884 classic.