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World Service,05 Aug 1999,4 mins

Writing and Sending Letters

My Century

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"Letter writing was very therapeutic. It allowed you the liberty of looking into you." Advanced mechanisation and, post and zip codes mean that postal services have expanded world-wide. Shamlu Dudeja from Calcutta recalls the 1950s when some of her father's letters had to travel by camel and she herself was courted by post.

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