Posting of course is much dearer than steam-boat travelling, but it is cheap in comparison with England: two horses cost 1s.

Then came the stamped paper, the protests, judgments and executions, and, finally, the posting for sale of the furniture of Monsieur Bovary, who knew nothing of all this.

On a lighter note, RG says he was offered, several times during his stint in Goa, bribes by various colleagues envious of his posting as inducement to trade places with them.

IRC chats and USENET groups, for example, present every contributor's postings in the same universal ASCII text.