How does pigeon letter courier work? How can they precisely know who they should send their letters to?
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Carrier pigeons are bred to want to go back to where they were born and raised. So what you would do is to hire someone to breed carrier pigeons for you at home and then send these pigeons in cages to the person you want to receive a message from. They can then attach the message to the pigeon and release it. The pigeon will hopefully find its way back to its pigeon hole and the breeder would then remove the note and deliver it to you.
It was a very good way to receive a secret message fast when you knew that you were to receive a message and from whom. For example the military would carry pigeons so they could quickly send messages home for reinforcements of soldiers or supplies. And merchants would send pigeons to agents in other towns and cities to send messages back about profitable sales so they could be the first to send out goods for trade.
However in most cases you would send out runners or riders with the message as carrier pigeons were not always set up beforehand. It was also common in empires and larger kingdoms to use systems of beacons or semaphores to carry messages even faster then pigeons.
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