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TIL: That from 1866 to 1984, Paris had a pneumatic tube postal service!

www.messynessychic.com

A Love Letter to the Lost World of the Parisian Pneumatic Post

I was reading A Coffin for Dimitrios (great book), and found a character saying "send me a pneumatique when you get to Paris." And in fact, there was a series of pneumatic tubes to speed the mail in Paris for over 100 years. Thought it was cool. Here's the wiki as well.

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