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A year of special celebrations will begin this morning to mark the 500th anniversary of the Royal Mail. The world's first postal network began in 1516 when Henry VIII knighted Brian Tuke and appointed him as the Master of the Posts. Well King Henry VIII founded the Royal mail five hundred years ago, there's no way he could have imagined how communication would change, with emails, texts and twitter. In fact, it got Â鶹Éç Radio Leicester's Matt Smith and Jack Rafferty wondering if Henry would still stand by the humble letter in the face of modern technology.