DID U KNOW U.S.LAW ALLOWED CHILDREN TO BE MAILED UNTIL 1913?

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Up Until 1913 parents could contract with the postal service to send their children accompanied by a postal worker.

The phenomenon was called baby mail. A package and stamps cost about 50 cents.
In 1913, The New York Times published a letter from a Georgia resident who even wanted to mail order a baby for adoption and asked how best to "package" the baby to comply with the rules.

On June 13, 1920, the Post Office Department issued a regulation stating that children (and people in general) could not be mailed.

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