Ever wondered about the history of courier service businesses and how they came about? In fact, the industry's history goes back a very long way. If you're a delivery driver yourself, you may well find some of it very interesting!
When Did the Idea Start?
It's a good question but one that nobody can really definitively answer. Even in prehistory, we can be relatively sure that certain people, usually those at the top of society, would have wanted to convey goods (often gifts). Usually this would have been between rulers and probably was part of the concept of messengers, emissaries, diplomats and ambassadors. So if you're looking at a history of courier services, it's not easy to tease these concepts apart to begin with. By the Imperial Roman period, there was something in place called the 'Cursus Publicus', which was a vast network of stations, couriers and wagons, all designed to carry official communications and publications to the far-flung corners of empire - but this was restricted to official not private communications.
Private Arrangements
For thousands of years, if a private individual wanted to send some goods or communications to another, he or she would have had to make ad-hoc arrangements.
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