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Interesting post Rob! I wouldn’t have guessed in the beginning it would lead to housing and sanitation issues in Liverpool!

How did the individual post offices keep track of the postage that was owed to other countries? Did each post office keep a written daily ledger, recording each overseas letter’s postage, which was then forwarded to a central office? In these days of rapid scanning, it is hard to imagine the amount of “handwork” that was required.

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