MW: thanks for this post! Interesting! In the Kodak ad they ‘suggest’ in the headline it was a US invention – only to give the UK credit in the body :-) But, opposite to what you write, military personnel was supposed to use the system – not the people back home… Maybe they had another ad for the homefront?

On the Postal Museum site I learned that although very useful, the amount of ‘real’ letters (Priority) dwarfed the photocopied ones – weird, as one would expect they completely abandoned the paper letters because of logistics.

PS: install the plugin to get notified about comments on this post – keeps your readers coming back for some more vitriol….

That simply isn’t true and is a statement made to provoke a response, which it suceeded in doing.

For a country that seems so dismissive of Britain colonial past America doesn’t seem to be doing much to ingratiate itself with the rest of the world.

Britain is one of America’s only true allies. Nearly 200 British troops have died this year helping America’s dream of Freedom yet the threat of a terror attack on British soil is greater than ever. How terribly sad.

With regard to freedom, believe it or not at 29 years I had very little involvement with things that happened 200 years ago and the UK is not in the habit of invading countries. Thinking about it, how man countries has the USA invaded since 1945?

At least you make good TV shows about it. Generation Kill was excellent.