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Originally Posted by stormlion1
A goverment, Milgov or Civgov would best be served by setting up post offices in a given area that require the locals to register to make use of the postal services.
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That makes a lot of sense. After all, there's little point in carrying mail for several hundred miles over potentially hostile terrain unless you know the recipient is a) alive and b) still living in said City. So presumably there would need to be some sort of registration process.
The sender would also need to know the recipient is alive, so any lists compiled could then be posted in a central location (e.g. the town square), allowing people to know if their friends / relatives are still alive. Of course, the down side of publishing lists of survivors in that fashion would be if someone wanted to use the information in a nefarious way (New America, to compile lists of 'undesirables', the guy whose ex wife moved to the next town / State etc to get away from him, the stalker who always had a thing for that cute girl that worked as a sports reporter for the local Fox affiliate before the war, etc, etc).