Being a courier dates back to the Middle Ages …..
1. Being a courier is one of the earliest professions. It became a vocation by the Middle Ages when Royal Courts started to pay their couriers wages to deliver their parcels.
2. A marathon is 26 miles long because of a courier in Ancient Greece: Pheidippides. He ran this distance from Marathon, Greece to Athens, Greece to spread the news that the Greeks were victorious over Persia in the Greece-Persian war
3. Courier services originated in Persia. Around 400 B.C, Prince Cyrus the Younger enlisted runners, homing pigeons and men on horseback to deliver important messages throughout his Kingdom and beyond.
4. Horses eventually replaced couriers on foot. Greeks and Romans made courier by horse and chariot the most common delivery methods of the time.
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