7/27/2023 0 Comments Red swan prince albert![]() ![]() This was the famous Penny Black stamp introduced in 1840. Then along came an inventor and English Teacher, Rowland Hill who suggested the Penny Post, paid by the sender and using an official mark. The service at the time was slow, unreliable and expensive – not what the first industrial power in the world needed. Costs varied and the receiver had to pay for the delivery. This caused more than a few problems for the postal service which early in the century was well poor, to say the least. However there was a downside, with all these people being able to read and write, they kept reading and writing to each other. It means that if the education system lets you down, if you can read and think, at least you can learn for yourself. Overall this idea of literacy seems very good. So the chances of reading a greetings card or getting the person next to you to do it for you were very high indeed. By the end of Victoria’s reign (1901) the figure for both were around 98%. ![]() At the turn of the 19th century literacy was for women around 35% and men 60%. LiteracyĪlso, it helped that people could read and write. Their introduction of a German Christmas changed a lot of yule tide traditions here including putting up decorated trees in our houses. However the mass sending of greetings by card was established in the UK partly by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. In either case I suspect that only the very top echelons of society did this. The first recording of printed cards in western Europe was in the 1400s. Did you know that the Ancient Egyptians sent greeting messages to each other written on papyrus. We’ve been receiving of greetings cards for hundreds of years. ![]()
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