Well, we've got jokes like that about the mail here! And we send money by normal letter instead of registered, as registered letters with money in vamish more often, that sort of thing, and everybody knows it. Still, most of the mail gets through.
And speaking of which, the mail coaches were running in "Thief of Time", where an Igor gets delivered to Jeremy Clockson by mail coach from Überwald, and somebody even says there's nothing faster than the mail coach from Überwald.
So what we get here is a major discrepancy within the Discworld canon, not just a prob for our RPG. Ordinary fen and readers don't have to worry about it, but we poor RPers have to go and break our brains trying to make sense of it and somehow retconning it into the RPG.
I'd still say it wasn't all the mail which got lost, but I'm yet to read the book - I will try my luck today at a bookshop, but if they don't have it yet, it's waiting for Amazon, and, erm, the mail might eat my delivery of GP just like it ate the one of "Good Omens" and "The Golden Key". At least Amazon is sending replacements for those.
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And speaking of which, the mail coaches were running in "Thief of Time", where an Igor gets delivered to Jeremy Clockson by mail coach from Überwald, and somebody even says there's nothing faster than the mail coach from Überwald.
So what we get here is a major discrepancy within the Discworld canon, not just a prob for our RPG. Ordinary fen and readers don't have to worry about it, but we poor RPers have to go and break our brains trying to make sense of it and somehow retconning it into the RPG.
I'd still say it wasn't all the mail which got lost, but I'm yet to read the book - I will try my luck today at a bookshop, but if they don't have it yet, it's waiting for Amazon, and, erm, the mail might eat my delivery of GP just like it ate the one of "Good Omens" and "The Golden Key". At least Amazon is sending replacements for those.