concept
Gorodskaya Pochta (City Post)
city post
also: городская почта, gorodskaya pochta
A cheap, same-city mail delivery service in large Russian towns using dedicated lower-denomination stamps for local delivery, used here for a volley of increasingly petty formal letters between two characters who could simply speak in person.
Reading notes
- The Poison §40 six city postage stamps
The gorodskaya pochta (city post) was a cheap, same-city mail service in large Russian towns, using dedicated lower-denomination stamps for local delivery; Lysov's repeated formal letters to the doctor, and his irritation at the wasted stamps, mark the small-mindedness his 'principle' has descended into.