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minus-squareFlocklesscrow@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·4 days 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-up15·3 days 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
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