Actually, yes. Shortly after parcel post was introduced in the early 1900s, several parents sent their small children though the mail. This was done with the help of sympathetic postal workers, most commonly over short distances in rural areas. And it was cost effective—in 1913, it cost just 15 cents to mail an 8-month-old baby to his grandmother.
Before you get any big ideas, though, know that the fun came to an end in 1920 when the postmaster general officially outlawed sending people through the mail. How lame.
Yes! During harsh times of slavery, a man named Henry Brown in Virginia lost his family to a plantation in North Carolina in 1848. He was devastated, and refused to let the same thing happen to himself. So, he built a box and "Mailed himself to freedom." He was shipped to his friends in Pennsylvania and lived free the rest of his life.
Wasn't there a slave that mailed himself? Not sure though
I understand that a certain current president has a tendency to "male it in". But that's just a rumor.
yes
Henry Brown (age 42), an African-American slave from Virginia, successfully escaped in a shipping box sent north to the free state of Pennsylvania in 1849. He was known thereafter as Henry "Box" Brown. It is illegal to ship a person, so don't even try! That includes shipping yourself, too. Neither the US Postal Service, FedEx, nor UPS allow for “human mail,” and neither do any smaller regional carriers. Charles McKinley (age 25) shipped himself from New York City to Dallas, Texas in a box in 2003.
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Human mail is the transportation of a person through the postal system, usually as a stowaway. While rare, there have been some reported cases of people attempting to travel through the mail. And my real name is Queen devil
YES, IN THE LATE FORTIES I READ A BOOK CALLED "THE BAREFOOT MAILMAN" It was based on an actual postal route
A mailman would take mail down the Atlantic Coast from Jacksonville to Miami! Some times he escorted adults along as parcel post.
He had many inlets and rivers to cross.
Remember, in those early days Miami was barely started and one could not drive to it. Later a railroad reached Miami and there, still, no roads to it.
While 0n the postal subject... while I was in college in 1948 i worked in the Philadelphia 30th street post office. It was a large building.
Every day mail was sent from the roof of the post office to the Philly airport , then in Camden, NJ! via an autogiro.
The autogiro invented by Pitcairn had a propeller AND horizontal rotary blades over the plane.
Yes. Here is some background information I found on the web
One of the earliest tales of beating the mail system occurred in 1849 with the escape of Virginia slave Henry “Box” Brown. One night, Brown had a dream to “mail [himself] to a place where there are no slaves.” With $86 in hand, Brown enlisted the help of a local storekeeper to box him up with water and biscuits and send him north to freedom. James Miller McKim, a Philadelphia abolitionist, agreed to receive the box. The trip began on March 23. While the journey only lasted 27 hours, Brown’s box was passed from wagon to railroad to steamboat and back again. The box often ended up upside down, but Brown remained quiet enough to avoid discovery. On March 24, Brown arrived in Philadelphia and was released as a free man.
That wasn’t the only case of shipping people by mail. In 1914, 5-year-old May Pierstorff was sent from Grangeville, Idaho to visit her grandmother in Lewiston, Idaho. When it came time to buy tickets, Pierstorff’s parents discovered that sending their daughter through parcel post was cheaper than buying fare. Pierstorff, who weighed less than the 50-pound weight limit, was sent through the mail at the chicken rate. Before Pierstorff boarded the train, her parents clipped 53 cents to her coat and sent her on her way. Upon arrival in Lewiston, the postmaster personally delivered the young girl to her grandmother’s house. Six years later, the practice of shipping humans through parcel post became illegal.
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yes it was henry box during the civil war henry mailed himself to free land so he couldn't be a slave no more. Also Spooder shronkey mcgee mailed himself to pluto.
Yes, you can buy fireworks from a marketer and have it shipped to you. However, it has to shipped via common carrier and cannot be mailed through the United States Postal Service.
According to the United States Postal Service, 3 days, or less.
Nothing happens, the letter will still be mailed. You just overpaid for it. Thank you for your contribution to the operating budget of the United States Postal Service.
For information about items that can and cannot be mailed to Australia, visit the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry website. For shipping methods and rates, visit the UPS, FedEx and United States Postal Service website.
You can expect that your mail will be mailed out the same day which you place it in a mailbox if you do so in the morning, or the following business day if you place it in the mailbox after the carrier has already visited the mailbox that day. The postal service picks up from most mailboxes Monday through Saturday. To determine when a letter was mailed, if you are in receipt of the letter, you can examine the postmark date on it. It shows when the postal service took possession of the letter.
Standard US Postal Service, legal sized envelope - roughly one week.
UPS, FedEx or US Postal Service. However, the frame of a handgun cannot be mailed.
A letter mailed with standard postage through the United States Postal Service takes five to seven days to reach its destination. Regular mail can take even less time than that for pieces mailed from Florida to New York, but it is unlikely to ever arrive overnight, unless an expedited delivery option is used.
First Class Mail is delivered in three to five days.
No. ALL drugs (prescription or nonprescription) are restricted items, and may not be mailed via USPS.
By first class mail, 2-7 days.
First Class Mail is delivered in three to five days.
First Class Mail is delivered in three to five days.
First Class Mail is delivered in three to five days.
First Class Mail is delivered in three to five days.
First Class Mail is delivered in three to five days.
First Class Mail is delivered in three to five days.
First Class Mail is delivered in three to five days.
First class mail is delivered in 3 to 5 days
First class mail is delivered in 3 to 5 days
If a letter is mailed via the United States Postal Service with a regular stamp, it takes approximately two days for it to go from Northern California to Southern California. Regular mail, as a general rule, should be allowed five to seven business days to reach its destination.
mailed mailing
As long as you live in the United States it should take but 2-4 days to receive your mail depending on how far you are from the Service Center.
First Class Mail is delivered in three to five days.
First Class Mail is delivered in three to five days.