baby vintage postcard
At least two children were sent via the US Postal Service in 1913! General Postmaster Hitchcock finally poopooed the practice after being inundated with letters inquiring into how one ships bambinos via parcel post! Here's an actual example:
Postmaster General,
Washington D. C.—Sir: I have been corresponding with a party in Pa about getting a baby to rais (our home being without One.) May I ask you what specifications to use in wrapping so it (baby) would comply with regulations and be allowed shipment by parcel post as the express co are to rough in handling Yours
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Diaper Changing Mailmen in 1913 - Postcard Friday #41
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32 cool cats commented:
Wow, that's an interesting postcard photo. I can't imagine actually shipping a baby parcel post, but I guess people do many strange things.
For real??!! Amazing ... now I feel so ignorant... lol
That is an amazing piece of historical information. Love the postcard. Wow, could you imagine shipping a baby today?
talk about scarring children for life...what were these people thinking???
This mailman doesn't look very happy about his special delivery.
Oh, my gosh, Marie! What a card! I had no idea babies were ever mailed! Amazing!
I wonder about the people who apparently knew from experience that the express company was "too rough" (!!!!)
No way! But I guess Fact is stranger than Fiction. Sheesh
This is so interesting, who'd have thought?????thanks for the fun challenge!!!!
Interesting!!!!!
Interesting!!!!!
That's hilarios. Extra postage pour la (le?) poop! :)
A practice which gave rise to the saying "it's in the bag" no doubt. hehe
I think FedEx is still okay as long as you ship overnight. Another great post! What a hoot!
Another version of the stork carriyng and gently dropping a baby !
People send (or try to) the most amazing things by post, babies though! Poor little mites.
I had never heard of such a thing! I was thinking the other day of the little green turtles they used to ship through the mail....awful....many died.
haha! seriously???
My hubby is a retired Army Aviator, but he also was a postal worker for a time in New Mexico, Hawaii, and Alabama (each time he "left" the postal service to serve for the military). I cant wait to show him this post!
His stories never involved shipping babies, but he has many about the uncanny ability of dogs to sense he was a postman, even out of his postal uniform! haha
Blessings & Aloha!
(dear friend, because of work, I am so behind with reading your wonderful posts! I am sneaking this blog time in, before heading off to work! I will come back after work and go back to all the ones I have missed!)
Amazing!!...thanks for the fun challenge!!!
Oh, that's too funny!
Oh my...I can't believe that! That mailman doesn't look too happy with his package there, LOL! It would be so interesting to know what happened to those two babies...the families that got them and what their lives were like here.
That is a SCREAM!!!!
No kidding!!! People do the darnest things but this?
Priceless!
I put up a link for PFF, nothing to do with mailmen though. Its just been an effort on getting things done around here. That is a great postcard.
Judy
Oh , lord , can you imagine.....?
Oh My! That is hilarious!
I find out where the stork put all those babies, I'm going to call the Post Office. Ooops, you said they stopped shipping babies...maybe UPS? Work From Home
Clearly the stork was on hiatus that week ;D
The snippets of diverse information you share never cease to amaze me, which is all the more reason why I greatly enjoy your wonderful blog!
Have a beautiful Sunday, my dear!
♥ Jessica
Love this postcard and WOW what a story. You can't ship children now that's for sure :)
Wow. That is absolutely ridiculous!
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