Private mail company

[AlanM]

Great idea! 

[Recumbent ReCycler]

Lloyd has a good point.  I used to work as a courier, delivering packages between Portsmouth and Boston.  It's difficult enough when you have a regular route, but if your customer base is scattered and sporadic, it would not be very cost effective unless the customers were willing to pay a hefty price for the service.  One issue that really hurt the business that I worked for was the high cost of gas.

[PowerPenguin]

Good idea. This kind of thing went on in small rural and small town cities all the time back in the day.

[Lloyd Danforth]

The mail got to those small towns sometimes as seldom as once a month and was handled as a part time job, by the owner of the one store that everybody had to go to.
This, and sometimes, twice a day delivery available in cities was possible at a reasonable price, only, because of the shear volume of first class mail, the only way to communicate before telephones, other than courier and telegraph.

[Russell Kanning]

It will be good to have Lloyd spreading the news about the operation to everybody ..... and how it cannot work.

[Lloyd Danforth]

Actually, I have several letter here to be picked up

[Russell Kanning]

I think our rates are a little high for your street......hazard pay.

[Tom Sawyer]

Hey be nice to Lloyd he is the last surviving Pony Express rider.

[Kat Kanning]

Trying hard to imagine Lloyd on a horse...failing.

[Lloyd Danforth]

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