[dragonwriter]

> I always wonder if there were these old fogeys who complained when the first postal services were brought in in the 19th century.

The first postal services were formed long before that; there were definitely some in the late 17th Century, may have been earlier.

[herge]

FWIW, I date it from the issuance of the first really convenient paper postage stamp, much like how OP probably is complaining about smartphones post 2007, as opposed to the first mobile phones in the 70's.