Rounding out the Day

Tuesday, 11:21 pm

By Kate

Jun

13

2006

A slightly astonishing fact from June 13, 1920:

“In response to separate incidents, the Post Office Department issues a regulation stating that children may not be sent by parcel post.”

I wonder how often that happened! In a box? Postage by the pound? How did people send children by parcel post?

(Info from the National Postal Museum)