Post riders in numbers like we had seen nowhere else.

She'd just grabbed off half the post riders for that.

They were faster than sending out post riders with the information.

He understood that the post riders need not be sorcerers.

"There are few post riders now bringing mail from the south.

Later, post riders became popular when there was an obvious demand for the transportation of public correspondence.

The colonists first used this trail to deliver the mail using post riders.

The other distinguishing feature was that post riders operated on a schedule.

The post riders had to make good time, specified clearly, and milestones came into their own to measure progress.

Messages could be sent at much greater speed than post riders and could serve entire regions.

Elizabethan England really started using post riders in earnest, being much more open to public use despite government restrictions.

Postmasters and post riders were exempt from military duties so as not to interrupt service.

Incoming post riders reported their progress as disappointing.

Before this the newspapers were carried outside the official portmanteau by the post riders and had a small chance of completing their journey.

Post riders rode horses between towns on the road and milestones marked the distance between cities.

The first mail coaches appeared in the later 18th century carrying passengers and the mails, replacing the earlier post riders on the main roads.

Two, the post riders reported that Lancelot, harrying the Saxons far into the east, had passed beyond contact.

There was a good chance we could have beat them up if they had not had all those post riders in the sky looking out for them.

Throughout the Empire, in 1234, he created postroad stations (Yam) with a permanent staff who would supply post riders' needs.

It was here in the New World that the post riders would provide the longest and most complete service before being eliminated by other forms of transport.

Post riders or postriders describes a horse and rider postal delivery system that existed at various times and various places throughout history.

While in the case of the post riders the shift from royal messenger to public courier must be seen as evolutionary, there were some notable early examples.

A typical schedule taken from The Virginia Gazette, March 21, 1766 shows an example of the type of service the post riders provided:

That night the news was galloped through St. Lucien, sent out by post riders and coach, and in ships across the Majis Sea.

He must set up a chain of post riders between Severn and as close to Winchester as possible, touching at Mount Badon.