A person employed to deliver messages, packages, or mail, especially one who travels quickly. Often used for urgent or important deliveries.
From Old French 'corier' meaning 'to run,' derived from Latin 'currere' (to run). Originally referred to a running messenger who carried urgent communications between distant places.
Ancient couriers were literally runners who carried messages across empires - the Persian Empire had relay stations every 25 miles where fresh runners would take over, creating one of history's first express mail systems. The Greek historian Herodotus praised these Persian couriers with words later adopted as the unofficial motto of the US Postal Service!
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