Just then a messenger came down from the office and gave Mr. Henrich a pink slip.

这时，办公室的信息员跑来，递给亨利克先生一张粉红色的小纸条。

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Send them on,this is what you do in the ancient world, you give a messenger--there's no post office you know.

送他们继续上路，在古时候就是这样，你派出一个信使，那时是没有邮局的。

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These days, the average office worker receives more than 200 messages a day via snail mail, e-mail, express mail, cell phone, landline, wireless Web, bicycle messenger, singing telegram, you name it.

如今，一位办公室人员每天通过“蜗牛”信（普信）、电子信、快递信、手机、电话、无线网络、信使、电报等收到的信息超过200条。

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"I hate the idea, " says William Sanchez, who keeps in touch with his Californian colleagues 2000 miles away from his New York office via Yahoo Messenger.

BBC: Messaging in an instant