My son once wrote to a pen company to settle a bet he had with me. Write to an author (his or her publishing house will forward your letter).ġ0. Only a tiny fraction of the country’s citizens have ever done this.ĩ. A mailed letter has a greater impact on your elected officials than calls or emails, so if an issue is troubling you take the time to write out your concerns. Write letters to deployed service members.Ĩ. Send a letter to your great aunt or a former neighbor.ħ. Get back in the habit of writing letters.Ħ. You can find out more about Bray in, The Englishman who Posted Himself and Other Curious Objects by John Tingey. He liked to test the logic of postal employees by mailing cards with addresses written as puzzles or clues. That included, but wasn’t limited to, a rabbit skull, a bowler hat, a turnip, his Irish terrier, and a bicycle punk.
In 1898 this British accountant began to send all sorts of unwrapped objects via mail. The quirkiest unwrapped mail history I’ve run across involves W. The trip took 27 hours, much of it upside down despite “this side up” instructions on the box.ĥ.
Using his savings to pay for the clandestine delivery, he had himself mailed to an abolitionist in Philadelphia. The most inspiring example is Henry Box Brown, who in 1849 was a slave in Virginia. She’s not the only person to be sent as cargo.Ĥ. My kids and I learned about her journey from the picture book, Mailing May, by Michael O. It was the only way her parents could afford the trip. mail as a package to visit her grandparents. In 1914, five-year-old Charlotte May Pierstorff was sent via U.S. Investigate the peculiar history of unwrapped mail.ģ. For more ideas on what you can send through the mail, check out the Pinterest board 13 ounces or less. Check USPS regulations on what cannot be sent by mail. I used a permanent marker to write a note to her on the handle and the address on the metal part.
The strangest thing I’ve sent was a two foot metal shovel with a wooden handle. I’ve mailed all sorts of silly things to a friend, mostly in response to oddities she mails to me. You might feel a little silly standing in line at the post office with an address-adorned plastic dinosaur, but it’ll be worth the look on your recipient’s face. All you need is a legible address and the correct postage. Try mailing a full-sized paintbrush, a basketball, a flip flop. Here are some ways you can make snail mail a pleasure.ġ. Sending and receiving mail helps us slow down, savoring time in a way that’s often missed in our terabyte-speed lives. Name a company that can do that and stay in business. Unprofitable? That’s not the real issue, unless you count the postal system having to pre-fund it’s retirement system 70-some years in advance. That’s pretty impressive. And the post office lets me mail unwrapped shovels too (more on that later). A few ounces of paper arrives in the one place in the world I want it to go, all for less than a buck. I’ve mailed plenty of letters to distant countries. When I mail a letter in Ohio, it’s often delivered in Boston or Denver the next afternoon. our postal service is often described as inefficient and unprofitable. (The letter, not the collar.)īut first a rant. Opening a personal letter seems like a pleasure from another era, irrelevant as a starched collar. Most of us don’t get anything interesting in the mail. (Image: CC by 2.0 Wikimedia Kev pittsburgh,pa)
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