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How digital revolution sent the post office on its deathbed

Customers check their mailboxes at the Kibra Post Office in Nairobi. Very few Kenyans use postal services nowadays. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

I recently saw a question in primary school math explaining how to price a telegram.

To generations Z and Alpha, telegrams were small urgent messages sent through the post office before we got SMS, email and WhatsApp.

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