courier

a person who carries a message

: ''This article discusses delivery couriers; for the font see Courier (font), for the mail transfer agent see Courier IMAP.''A courier is a person or company (law)company that delivers packages and mail, often between offices and generally in a shorter timescale than mailsurface mail. In citycities, some couriers will ride bicycles or motorbikes but most today use trucks and aircraft.The term courier can also be used for a certain kind of robots, courier robots, that transport objects in a building (home, industry, and others).There are many courier enterprises. The world's largest courier company is United_Parcel_ServiceUPS followed by FedEx.Another sort of courier is a "cash-courier". This is someone who carries large amounts of cash money from one place to another (from one country to another) to avoid the normal financial circuit (where they risk being reported to an anti-moneylaundering authority) and thus launder money from an illegal origin.

History - Couriers of some kind have likely existed before first regular postal system has been invented. The first documented use of an organized courier service for the diffusion of written documents is in Egypt, where Pharaohs used couriers for the diffusion of their decrees in the territory of the State (2400 BC). This practice almost certainly has roots in the much older practice of oral messaging and may have been built on a pre-existing infrastructure.

See also -

Bicycle messenger

Domotics

Express mail

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Courier-Journal
Provides daily news, weather and sports for the greater Louisville area, including New Albany, Indiana. Includes community links and information, obituaries, and contact information. Located in Louisville.
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The Post and Courier
Online version Charleston's daily; features a dining guide, links to shopping and tourism information, as well as non-profit groups, searchable classifieds and story archives.
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Courier mail server
An SMTP/IMAP/POP3/HTTP (webmail) server, implementing SMTP extensions for mailing list management and spam filtering. (C, C++, Perl) [GNU/Linux, Unix]
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Courier Electronic Edition
Community paper providing local news, sports, weather, and business information.
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