Telecommunication Series Part 2 – The Origin of Post Office

Happy Sabbath!

Do you know where the term post office and stamp come from? Let us hear the story.

Last Sabbath we have learn about message bearers who run to and fro. This system was developed as the post services. In England, King Henry VIII appointed a Master of Post in 1516.

This post was called a ‘horse carriage post’ (staging post), places where the postmen got the responsibility to deliver a piece of letter to the next post, and to the next one along the way.

Later, the horse carriage posts became stopping stations for the post carriage where the postmen could rest or change the horse. Much more later, postmen came with bicycles, vans, trains, ships, and even airplanes.

One thing we learn from this is that the letter might not be delivered directly to the receiver, but it went through several stations until it reached the destination. It is the same with the good news God wants everyone to hear, it may not come directly to all but to several people first and then continued to the others.

God said, “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.” (Matthew 28:19-20)

Jesus gave the message to the disciples to be carried out to the others and eventually to our generation. Thus, let us be faithful to co-labor with God in spreading the word of His truth to the human race in many ways according to His will.

Happy Sabbath and God bless you.