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minus-squareFlocklesscrow@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·1 month agoThe USPS had to explicitly ban the shipping of children in 1914, because people, ya know, shipped their kids, with stamps.
minus-squareByteJunk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 month agoThat was a wild rabbit hole… The Beagues paid 15 cents for [their infant son’s] stamps and an unknown amount to insure him for $50, then handed him over to the mailman, who dropped the boy off at his grandmother’s house about a mile away. https://www.history.com/news/mailing-children-post-office
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 month agoULPT: you can circumvent this law by putting 'em in crates and have them labeled as pets.
The USPS had to explicitly ban the shipping of children in 1914, because people, ya know, shipped their kids, with stamps.
That was a wild rabbit hole…
https://www.history.com/news/mailing-children-post-office
ULPT: you can circumvent this law by putting 'em in crates and have them labeled as pets.