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Later the merchants of the Hanse towns along theBaltic coast set up their Hanseatic League and employeda postal service for their own convenience and occasion-ally, as a favor perhaps, a message would be carried forsomeone not a member of the league. Still later theCounts of Thurn and Taxis established a private postalsystem that covered much of Europe and made theirservices available to all who would pay their fees. This
was the beginning of our modern postal system. Inaddition to the system operated by the houses of Thurnand Taxis, which, incidentally, was dignified by royal grant, there were various other private postal systems thatmore or less flourished in parts of Europe. One of thesewas conducted by the universities of France which hadfound it expedient to have some means available for thestudents to write home to get money. |
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