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Memori Korespondensi:
Kring… Kring The front facade of PT Pos Indonesia’s Head Office Jessika Nadya.
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The flower generation and gen-X Can still remember the postman on his bicycle, visiting people’s homes, delivering letters or money orders. So great is his service, that the song “I am a very diligent postman. I deliver letters on a bicycle. I deliver to all houses. I don’t choose rich and poor. Kring kring pos…”, whose melody is similar to the song
“My Ancestors Were Sailors” by Ibu Sud. Gradually, the wind-powered carriage was replaced with a motorcycle, which over time was also swallowed up by the times and even auctioned off. In this 21st century, all memories of postcards, postage stamps, telegraphs, giro accounts, as well as the history of mail delivery since the days of the Dutch East Indies can be recalled through a visit to the Indonesian Postal Museum in Bandung.
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