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Unusual deliveries

in Can Mail has its origins in the 1880s when a plantation-owner, William Travers, became frustrated by the lack of a regular mail service. He wrote to the Tongan authorities, suggesting that empty ship’s biscuit tins could be co-opted to carry mail, all a passing steamship had to do was throw a tin overboard,

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