Courier Facts You Didn’t Know

Courier services were invented in Persia.

Around 400 BC, Prince Cyrus the Younger enlisted the help of runners, horsemen, and homing pigeons. These assets were used to deliver important messages throughout the kingdom and beyond.

After a short while, the Greeks and Romans swiftly made horse and chariot the most widespread delivery method replacing the foot couriers.

A marathon is 26 miles long because of a courier in ancient Greece.

Pheidippides, a courier, ran this distance from Marathon, Greece to Athens to spread the news that the Greeks were victorious over Persia in the Greco-Persian War.

According to history, royal courts used their own messengers during the middle ages, or about between the fifth and the fifteenth centuries. Their responsibility was to make sure political communication was always possible.