![]() ![]() The postage was fifteen cents and the parcel was insured for $50. Louis Beagle, who lives about a mile distant. Lytle delivered the boy safely at the address on the card attached, that of the boy’s grandmother, Mrs. The boy was well wrapped and ready for “mailing” when the carrier received him to-day. The baby, a boy weighing 10-3/4 pounds, just within the 11-pound weight limit, is the child of Mr. 5, is the first man to accept and deliver under parcel post conditions a live baby. This was great for businesses and farmers but a few people took advantage of it to ship their children! On January 26, 1913, the New York Times reported that a mail carrier in Batavia, Ohio, delivered a baby “mailed” by his parents to his grandmother who lived about a mile away: ![]() Before this time all you could send was a normal letter. Post Office introduced a Parcel Post service for Americans to send larger packages through the Post Office. This idea seems hilarious and crazy, and a wild stretch of the author’s imagination, but did you know that back in 1913-1914 it was legal to send children through the mail? There are some cases of “real-life Flat Stanley’s” in the United States Postal history. In the book Flat Stanley, Stanley was mailed to California instead of going by train or plane in order to save money. ![]()
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