Post road

In past centuries, only major towns had a post house and the roads used by post riders or mail coaches to carry mail among them were particularly important ones or, due to the special attention given them, became so.

Great Post Road (Dutch: De Grote Postweg), from Anyer to Panarukan, Indonesia, was a notable post road in Asia, built during the governancy of Herman Willem Daendels of Dutch East Indies from 1808 to 1811. Notable post roads in Europe include: The following are notable post roads in Canada and the U.S. Chemin du Roy was built between Montreal (Repentigny) and Quebec City from 1731 to 1737, for mail and as a means of travel for the key settlements in New France[1]/Lower Canada.

[citation needed] In what was to later become the United States, post roads developed as the primary method of communicating information across and between the colonies.

U.S. Supreme Court justice Joseph Story defended the broad interpretation that had become dominant in his influential Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (1833).

[3] Notable American post roads built for the purpose include: