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Description Before the internet and reliable phone conncections, this was the quickest inexpensive method of international communication. It was a single, folded sheet of thin paper and nothing could be inserted (this was an advantage since no one would try to open it en route to see what was inside).
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Before email 4: Air letter from Saltpond, Ghana to Kabala, Sierra Leone (West Africa) January 1968

Author John Atherton

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