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Originally Posted by redpoint5
I feel like deliveries of all sorts aren't well planned. It's like nobody realized people will get something delivered even though that's been standard for over a hundred years. It's like how homes are still built with no consideration for where things like TVs will go.
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Consumers are an unorganized, rambunctious lot. They should aggregate their purchases or queue up or something. But the built environment can be criticised too.
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Since the end of the l9th century there have been numerous detail changes of the network inside Paris but only one tube has gone outside Paris: that to Neuilly opened in 1914. It had been intended to extend the tubes widely through the suburbs but the 1914-18 war suspended the project and it was never revived. Nevertheless, in 1907 the transport of pneumatic mail beyond the limits of Paris was made possible by the employment of special messengers operating in 19 suburban areas. By 1916 these messengers were on bicycles and operating in most of the towns of the department of the Seine and also in Enghien-les-bains, Sevres, and St Cloud in the department of the Seine et Oise. Raincy was added in 1921.
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www.cix.co.uk/~mhayhurst/jdhayhurst/pneumatic/book1.html
So 100 years ago, last mile was by bicycle.