...FIRST CLASS POST AND FALCON 9?

1. In 1810, Heinrich von Kleist proposed packing letters into artillery shells and firing them across the countryside. His plan would have allowed mail to be carried across a relay of artillery batteries, covering 300km in half a day. 2. Friedrichh Schmied dl was the first to use a rocket to o deliver mailm in 1931. His V-7 ro ocket delivered 107 postcardsds between two Austrian towns 2km apart.

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In 1959, the US Postal Service trialled mail delivery with a Regulus cruise missile. The postmaster general predicted that regular rocket mail deliveries would be running before humans reached the Moon.

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Rocket deliveries haven’t taken off yet, but SpaceX has suggested using Falcon 9 rockets to send cargo from New York to Tokyo in 25 minutes.