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History of a different sort:
New Zealand's Great Barrier Island (not to be confused with Oz's Great Barrier Reef) had very limited communication with the mainland until a cable supplied a telephone link in the early C20th. Before then, in the aftermath of one of New Zealand's worst-ever shipwrecks in 1894, the locals set up a special mail service. It seems to have been very reliable, with only occasional slips such as a letter going to Auckland via Sydney, Australia. How were the letters transported?
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