Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat
Thu, 02/20/2014 - 10:02
Staff Reports
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”
So said, according to Wikipedia, the ancient Greek work of Herodotus, translated by Prof. George Herbert Palmer, Harvard University, describing the Persian system of mounted postal carriers c. 500 B.C.E.