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[-] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 20 points 3 days ago

The USPS had to explicitly ban the shipping of children in 1914, because people, ya know, shipped their kids, with stamps.

[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

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

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