Joshua Levine
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Well, another thing that was very practical was the postal system.
If people were getting letters from home on a regular basis or getting fruitcakes or chocolate or heroin.
Socks knitted by your heroin.
I don't know where that came from.
But then they were going to be happier.
You wanted people, clearly.
You didn't want people complaining all the time.
They're going to do that anyway.
But you didn't want them to do it too much.
So this postal system was astonishing.
You would have millions and millions of letters arriving a day.
They'd be brought to a couple of central hubs in London, I think City, Regent's Park, and then brought to the coast and then brought over in steamers and then brought again in stages, very much like going back on the hospitals.
They'd be brought to basically a sort of trench post office, a sort of frontline post office, and be delivered into the trenches.