The startup famed for its release of the postal system just released an open standard for its system. »We released the system publicly to encourage industry to adopt our system rapidly« said PostBell inventor Thodor Demron. The system itself will remain copyrighted and owned by
Bexley University.
PostBell communicates over "packages" delivered in hopper lines. Each package starts with a location identifier, which is a piece of paper named after the postal identifier of the recipients location. For example, the
Portbryn Central
Postal Office uses "PORTBRYN" to identify itself. The payload of the message follows, and may be up to 1024 items in size. Shulkers cannot be sent. After the payload another piece of paper, the buster follows. It marks the end of the communication, and is a piece of paper named "BUSTER". Because the circuit does not close instantly and another item is piped towards the reciver box, a sender postal identifier follows after the buster. It is a piece of paper, named after the sending post office, prexied with "from ". For example, messages sent from
Bexley Engineering will contain a paper named "from BEXENG". To prevent messages from stacking up, the message is rounded up to the next hopper with padding items - pieces of paper named PAD1, PAD2, ...