Re:A Brief History of Children Sent Through the Mail (2016)
by jgilias on Monday November 02, 2020 @07:18AM
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Looking forward towards Amazon Snowtot.
In all seriousness though, the discussion later in the article explaining how the postal service was a lot more personal in those days explains it. Just take any piece of literature from around then that has a mailman as a character, and it's always someone who's on first-name basis with everyone in the village. Combine that with a lot more limited transportation options in general in those times, and the idea of shipping the kid a few miles down the road by mail doesn't seem such a bad idea.
And of course the occurrences were rare enough to be newsworthy.
In all seriousness though, the discussion later in the article explaining how the postal service was a lot more personal in those days explains it. Just take any piece of literature from around then that has a mailman as a character, and it's always someone who's on first-name basis with everyone in the village. Combine that with a lot more limited transportation options in general in those times, and the idea of shipping the kid a few miles down the road by mail doesn't seem such a bad idea.
And of course the occurrences were rare enough to be newsworthy.