People weren’t using enough stamps.
It’s fine when the baby is shipped but then it grows and it doesn’t have enough stamps for the weight at delivery.
Reminds me of Futurama. “You’re under arrest for child cruelty, child endangerment, depriving children of food, selling children AS food, and misrepresenting the weight of livestock!”
Fun fact: USPS still ships livestock
Royal mail posted more…
RM are apparently prepared to accept bees. So if you need to ship some bees to anyone they’ve got your back. So much better than a glitter bomb.
Tbf most of the other companies were not around back then (100 years ago) so maybe they would have also shipped kids (for profit)…
Maybe
Nothing sent by DHL, UPS or Fedex is mail.
Yes it is. If i say im gonna mail you this with UPS, you know what i mean. Whats the point of this comment
UPS can legally screen your letters for any or no reason and keep the local government in the loop.
USPS Mail is 4th amendment protected.
You mean by definition? Because FedEx started out as an overnight alternative to US mail, to send important documents across the country for signing.
yeah they’re parcel services, not mail services
Where the kids safe and healthy when they arrived?
Generally yes.
seems to me then that UPS doesn’t care about their customers
Miss me with the pro-privatized corporate slop. Where my public service homies at?
DHL is part of the Deutsche Post which is the German version of the US postal service. They have however been privatized in the 90s.
bUt IMagINe if ApPlE rAn THe POsT oFfIce
tryna ship more humans
Buddy, kids fly supervised all the time. What’s the difference between the USPS and Delta? Take my 8 year old to the desk agent, they escort him to the gate, employees on the plane watch him, then an agent at the destination escorts him to grandpa. Let me know if I’m describing USPS or Delta.
Still would use over fedex
Here’s some context. Context
I do love that these postmen also just staight-up posed for photos with the babies they were carrying. Staight up the same shit we’d do now.
Also this seems like the exact kind of child endangerment that would happen in a Ghibli film.
I honestly think it’s kinda sweet how it worked to be honest.
People showed up, gave their kid postage, and told the clerk they were mailing them. Clerk was confused for a minute, and then conceded that there was nothing technically forbidden about that. Kid hops on the scale, postage is correct, and the kid waits behind the counter until the trip to train, where they ride with the operator.Basically people gently gaming the system and the people involved saying “you’re technically correct” and then looking after a random child.
They only stopped it because they decided you can’t operate a train and keep a kid safe at the same time, and weight is not a great way to price childcare.and weight is not a great way to price childcare.
I’d like to hear your solution then!
Thought this was some ICE news I hadn’t heard about.
Yeah, I actually think these types of thing are a healthy thing for society.
The fact some parents were like “I can’t afford a train ticket” and some postal workers just went with it is great.
i mean, some parents are currently like “i can only afford one plane ticket” and just have to hope the adult their kid gets sat by is safe. it kind of feels the same way.
Going through the postal service might have been safer than other forms of travel because there would have been more explicit exchanges of custody. Like put a kid on a passenger train and they could just get off and get lost before getting on a connecting train and who knows what happened to them? They arrived on train A but never got on train B.
Whereas with mail, the kid becomes the operator’s responsibility. If the kid is handed over to the operator to ride train A but then is nowhere to be found at the destination, then that operator is the prime suspect. Or the operator hands the kid off to the next operator in the journey and the kid is now their responsibility.
And even if you have a babysitter, passenger stations are going to be a lot more crowded than cargo stations, so keeping track of a kid will be a lot easier, plus the driver is the babysitter for the postal service, so they won’t miss their train or take the wrong one by accident (unless they are routed incorrectly lol).
Didn’t know they delivered to Epstein Island /jk
I had heard about it and by now I’m just surprised it was only 7…
You can still mail bees!
Don’t order live animals via the mail. Consider all the cuts to the USPS since Trump’s first term. It is simply unbelievable that shipping a live animal via USPS is considered humane. Day old chicks are shipped all the time and are considered to be in the same category as food or produce. Many have always died during shipping because the process is not designed to handle live animals, but since Trump’s first term it has gotten far, far worse.
Under current policy, chicks are classified as perishable goods within the U.S. Mail system and handled in the same logistical category as items such as food or plants. This distinction matters. Because they are treated as parcels rather than live animals, they are not subject to the animal welfare standards required for other forms of live animal transport.
In fact, in 2020, in Maine alone, 4,800 baby chicks arrived dead after Trump’s postal cuts kicked into high gear.
The USPS has been allowing live animals to be sent through the mail since 1918. But with the current Postal Service crisis, there has been a huge spike in the number of chicks that are dying on the journey. In recent weeks, 4,800 baby chicks that were sent through the mail arrived dead to recipients in Maine alone. In other parts of New England, several other farmers have also reported receiving hundreds of dead chicks in the mail.
Meanwhile in California, workers at a large mail-sorting facility in South Los Angeles “…fell so far behind processing packages that by early August, gnats and rodents were swarming around containers of rotted fruit and meat, and baby chicks were dead inside their boxes,” according to the Los Angeles Times. “This month, one worker said, she found a box with air holes in a pile of packages. Instead of hearing the gentle sounds of baby chicks, she heard nothing.”
If you have any compassion for living animals, do not ship them via USPS.
I was working at a UPS sorting facility when a box of live snakes broke open. That was a fun day
I’ve also received live worms and chickens via post
Postie just casually dropkicking a child into the bush when you’re not in.
