Rather than taking weeks to be delivered by horse-and-carriagemail carts, pieces of news could be exchanged between telegraph stations almost instantly.
相比于由马车送信需要数星期，一条条信息通过电报站几乎立即就能发送出去。
2
A crowd waits outside Westminster Abbey in 1911. At right in the vintage photo, a Royal Mail horse and carriage delivers the post.
1911年，在威斯敏斯特大教堂外等待的人群。照片的右边，皇家邮递马车正在送信。
3
The freight rate charged by an airline for the carriage of cargo (excluding mail) on scheduled air services;