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[Music] you know today if you want to mail a letter or a package almost anywhere in the world it's a relatively simple process if you know the name the address and the postal code that's all the information needed for a postal carrier to get the package where it's supposed to go but while we take that service for granted today the development of a service where you could reasonably expect that you could drop off a package and have it arrive where you hope for it to go was an incredibly important development in human history one that is absolutely vital to the modern world in which we live of course the development and convocation of addresses was important but perhaps just as important was the development of those postal codes a series of numbers that give the postal carrier most or all the information they need to get a letter or whatever you ordered from amazon yesterday to your front door the history of the underappreciated but incredibly important zip code deserves to be remembered the earliest postal systems didn't bear much similarity to the ones used today the ancient egyptians were possibly the first instituting a kind of state-sponsored message carrying system with dedicated couriers nearly 4 400 years ago less well-attested systems may have existed in china even earlier other fertile crescent civilizations like the assyrians and babylonians also had impromptu systems used by businesses in the wealthy and likely using paid couriers for messages that had to be written down and sent these were not usable by the general populace but created by nearly all empires that followed to send orders and official documents to institute taxes and enforce rule perhaps the best early mail system was that of the achaemenid persians who could transport messages using horse riding couriers working in relay across the massive empire in a matter of days from the capital of souza messages could reach the city of sardis 2600 kilometers in seven to nine days along royal roads according to dr lindsey allen it marked the first time that consistently formatted letters folded and sealed were used it was far more efficient than any of the systems that predated it and herodotus's description of it has become the unofficial model of the us postal service chiseled on a new york city post office on 8th avenue neither snow nor heath nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds across the world other systems developed in china the islamic empire the mongol empire and the inca empire in south america until the early modern era a regular person sending a message had to hire a courier or send it along with travelers and hope that the message reached its destination in 15th century in europe the holy roman empire contracted the italian torrey and tasso family to handle mail in the empire which in germany was called the turn and toxies post...