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1y 7mon ago by lemmy.world/u/TehBamski in loadingartist from loadingartist.com

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...

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

ULPT: you can circumvent this law by putting 'em in crates and have them labeled as pets.

I both laughed out loud, and more than once, at this comic. Thank you for that; I needed it!

There's a hidden spider, he's >in the mailbag in the mail truck!<

That Spoiler Tag doesn't work

Girls don't have problems like this. They'll never understand what it's like to be mail.