摘要
语篇志读在人类文明史上，邮件占有重要的位置。邮件的存在极大地方便了人与人之间的沟通与交流，促进了社会的发展。那么你知道早期的邮件历史吗？让我们一起来了解一下吧!
Now it is very easy for you to get in touch with your friends or relatives. But in early days, no one could be sure when or where the mail would arrive. There was once a post office under a rock at the southern tip of Africa. In the old days, if people wanted to go to India from England, they had to be around the Cape of Good Hope. The journey was very stormy and dangerous. It took six long months. Sailors often wished to send letters home, but they seldom met the ship going back to England. So at the cape the sailors would go ashore. They went to a special large stone. On the stone was scratched the words ＂Look here under for letters＂. They would leave their letters there, they knew the next homeward ship would stop and pick them up.
