where did the word courier come from?

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HISTORY OF COURIER
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Where did the word courier come from? 

• Courier is a Latin derivative. It comes from
  the Latin word currere, which means to run.
• Most couriers drive everywhere these days, which
  makes the original meaning of courier kind of
  obsolete. However, to run certainly applies to
  older delivery method.
• In Ancient Rome, for example, the Cursus
  Publicus operated with a network of couriers or
  runners that would run between two points to
  deliver a message or an item. Longer journeys
  required horseback riders instead to ensure the
  message was delivered in good time.

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• Ancient couriers were even known to have
  established a relay system to improve delivery
  speed, whereby one rider would travel for a day
  or so with the message and hand it to another
  rider waiting at a checkpoint, who would set off
  as the first courier stopped to rest for the
  night.
• It was essentially the earliest version of an
  express delivery service.
• Perhaps the most famous example of couriers as
  runners, though, is in the legend of
  Pheidippides.
• For those unfamiliar with the story, Pheidippides
  was a Greek messenger who ran the 26 miles from
  Marathon to Athens to announce the defeat of the
  Persians at the hands of the Spartans before
  collapsing and dying on the spot.

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