>> You mean to tell me the post office controls the phone 
>> system?
>>
> Who else? Here the company was called the PTT for "Post Telegraaf 
> Telefoon". Despite the different spelling, I think you can figure out 
> what those words mean. There were all for obvious reasons (i.e. obvious 
> outside the US) state monopolies that involved communications, so the 
> logical thing (id.) is to combine them.

I don't know my history very well, but I'm guessing postal services 
existed long before electrical telecommunications. I'd guess that when 
it became the fashion, it seemed logical to task the postal system with 
implementing it...

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