Have you ever wished you didn’t have to travel with your child (or grandchild)? If you lived in the United States in 1913 or 1914 you had an alternative. Send him or her by mail! You could use the US Parcel Post Service which began on January 1, 1913. Regulations stated that a package could not weigh more than 22 kg and not much else. The initial regulations included a provision that allowed shipping of live bees and bugs, but no rules allowing or against shipping of children. The rest of this article details several incidents of mailing children.

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