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From the Classical Era through the 20th century, before the invention of the interwebs, people communicated with each other over long distances and even greater spaces of time by making markings on convenient flat surfaces such as clay tablets, animal skins, or a forest product called "paper." Because these markings could be arranged to represent words, and those words could be organized into ideas, they were thought very useful and versatile. For example, they were sometimes composed in such a way as to communicate a personal message (called a "letter"), transfer money via a third party to a named person or entity (called "paying the bills," done by "writing checks"), or even tell a story (sometimes called "literature," if the story was a good one).
Depending on the era, a remarkable proportion of the population was able to communicate via such markings (or "literate"), and since one of governments' chief functions was to organize their movement (called "the mail"), they often built large and ornate buildings (called "post offices") to facilitate this activity. Today some people contend that the work that was done in these buildings was carried out by snails, but that is only a whimsical urban legend. It instead seems that in the period of transition during which the use of these markings was becoming obsolete, their movement was increasingly viewed as cumbersome and slow, giving rise to the term "snail mail."
Above, the Socialist Modernist Central Post Office in Plovdiv (1970s). During construction of the massive building the 1st century Roman Forum (foreground) was discovered and partially excavated. The building is still in use but is decaying and much of it is empty or repurposed. When we arrived the whole area seemed to have been taken over temporarily by Coca Cola, since it was lined with banners and youths passing out free cokes. Central Post Office, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
There's not much interest in ice cream here; it's been below freezing outside for over 2 weeks. I found this forgotten box of sherbet in the freezer. That's all I got. We're Here @ ice cream .
The interior of the once House of Science and Technology, a late communist era Brutalist building now housing a cinema in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. House of Science and Technology, AKA Lucky House of Cinema, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.