[Mkguild] Messages and Letters delivery on MK setting

[Pontos]

I'd rather leave the public service aside. Now that i think deeply on 
it, an open and public service will definitely not fit on the setting.
Now, Misha told me that nobles and monarchs most assuredly already have 
some official system to stay in contact with each other, but it was 
never established or commented in any story so far. Starting off of 
this, we could assume that an organized avian-based delivery for such 
letters was already implemented (a nice and feasible way to introduce a 
retcon :D).
So this can be reduced simply to fill a hole in how things are done in 
the setting.

Regarding the danger on the birds, homing pigeons never have had any 
problem delivering letters as far as I know. They can't get lost since 
all they do is going back home from a certain point (hence, the two 
specific points to travel to and from I stated before).
About other birds proving to be a complication for the messengers, since 
pigeons haven't had problems with that, bigger birds shouldn't have 
problems either.

What do you think about establishing this as the way in which monarchs 
maintained contact all this time?

Pontos

PD: I sent this in the morning, but only to Tatsu...

JL Badgley wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Fizzie <kaufmabr at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> You could make the mail delivery system look like a tree.  As in that a
>> person will come by about once a week or once a month, depending on were or
>> how important a place is, to pick up the local mail.  Then that person takes
>> it to a bigger city were it works its way to progressively bigger cities and
>> then to the destination.  You could have the postal service sponsored by the
>> government, but the users still pay a postage tax or whatever.  Make it were
>> the postal run to Metamor is the least favorite route or a punishment.  Now
>> for the people that want to get something somewhere fast there could be
>> something out there like a Pony Express.  Were they have a series of stables
>> set along the roads were a express man can change out his current horse for
>> a new one, or pass it on to a new rider.  But the express  works 24 hours a
>> day 7 days a week and will take something anywhere.
>>     
>
> For an efficient system I think you want a hub-and-spoke topology.
> However, efficiency often gets overridden by other concerns.
>
> Also, Pontos, what are you doing to protect the birds from dangers
> (e.g. other birds, getting lost, etc.)?
>
> -Tatsushu