A closer look
Postal delivery in the early twentieth century occasionally included the shipping of actual living children through the standard mail system. After parcel post was introduced in 1913, some resourceful parents realized it was cheaper to pay a few cents in stamps to mail their toddler to their grandparents than to buy a train ticket. The postal workers would literally carry the stamped child on the train and hand-deliver them to the specified address. It is incredibly heartwarming that society once trusted a federal logistics service to safely transport a human infant, especially considering they currently struggle to deliver a postcard without bending it in half. Just imagine modern shipping protocols applied to your firstborn; they would definitely get left on the porch in the rain without a signature
