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USPS was probably much more adamant about delivering lost mail in the 1950s. The level of service was higher, with twice daily delivery.

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I never knew they did twice daily deliver, time to google up some more info!

http://500years.royalmailgroup.com/gallery/delivery-frequenc...

In the UK it was up to 12 times / day in cities!

To some degree, I'm sure it was a plot device but 19th century English novels often depended on rapid/same-day communications via letter at least in the environs of London.

Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Penny_Post

That was considered standard then in London. Royal Mail even had its own underground railways in London.

It was more in some places. My grandma and aunt would mail letters like IMs in 1930s NYC.

I guess the telephone was able to replace a lot of those messages - and is possibly the reason they dialed back in the 1950s?

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