People weren’t using enough stamps.
It’s fine when the baby is shipped but then it grows and it doesn’t have enough stamps for the weight at delivery.
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Reminds me of Futurama. "You're under arrest for child cruelty, child endangerment, depriving children of food, selling children AS food, and misrepresenting the weight of livestock!"
now the GOP is trying to USPS to discredit mail in ballots.
Fun fact: USPS still ships livestock
Royal mail posted more....
RM or apparently prepared to accept bees. So if you need to ship some bees to anyone they've got your back. So much better than a glitter bomb.
Tbf most of the other companies were not around back then (100 years ago) so maybe they would have also shipped kids (for profit)...
Maybe
Nothing sent by DHL, UPS or Fedex is mail.
Yes it is. If i say im gonna mail you this with UPS, you know what i mean. Whats the point of this comment
UPS can legally screen your letters for any or no reason and keep the local government in the loop.
USPS Mail is 4th amendment protected.
You mean by definition? Because FedEx started out as an overnight alternative to US mail, to send important documents across the country for signing.
yeah they're parcel services, not mail services
Miss me with the pro-privatized corporate slop. Where my public service homies at?
DHL is part of the Deutsche Post which is the German version of the US postal service. They have however been privatized in the 90s.
bUt IMagINe if ApPlE rAn THe POsT oFfIce
tryna ship more humans
Buddy, kids fly supervised all the time. What's the difference between the USPS and Delta? Take my 8 year old to the desk agent, they escort him to the gate, employees on the plane watch him, then an agent at the destination escorts him to grandpa. Let me know if I'm describing USPS or Delta.
I've been the safe adult on southwest a few more times than I'd like. Usually the times I don't want to, I'm sick as hell [I postpone travel if I have something communicable but the chronic suspects don't get to slow me down] and don't want to talk to anyone but my wife and my beasties. I can mask discomfort if it means a kid travels safe and happy.
I honestly think it's kinda sweet how it worked to be honest.
People showed up, gave their kid postage, and told the clerk they were mailing them. Clerk was confused for a minute, and then conceded that there was nothing technically forbidden about that. Kid hops on the scale, postage is correct, and the kid waits behind the counter until the trip to train, where they ride with the operator.
Basically people gently gaming the system and the people involved saying "you're technically correct" and then looking after a random child.
They only stopped it because they decided you can't operate a train and keep a kid safe at the same time, and weight is not a great way to price childcare.
and weight is not a great way to price childcare.
I'd like to hear your solution then!
Yeah, I actually think these types of thing are a healthy thing for society.
The fact some parents were like “I can’t afford a train ticket” and some postal workers just went with it is great.
i mean, some parents are currently like "i can only afford one plane ticket" and just have to hope the adult their kid gets sat by is safe. it kind of feels the same way.
Going through the postal service might have been safer than other forms of travel because there would have been more explicit exchanges of custody. Like put a kid on a passenger train and they could just get off and get lost before getting on a connecting train and who knows what happened to them? They arrived on train A but never got on train B.
Whereas with mail, the kid becomes the operator's responsibility. If the kid is handed over to the operator to ride train A but then is nowhere to be found at the destination, then that operator is the prime suspect. Or the operator hands the kid off to the next operator in the journey and the kid is now their responsibility.
And even if you have a babysitter, passenger stations are going to be a lot more crowded than cargo stations, so keeping track of a kid will be a lot easier, plus the driver is the babysitter for the postal service, so they won't miss their train or take the wrong one by accident (unless they are routed incorrectly lol).
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Where the kids safe and healthy when they arrived?
Generally yes.
seems to me then that UPS doesn't care about their customers
Still would use over fedex
My wife's grandfather worked for the post office in a rural area and delivered live chicks to farms. With enough postage you could mail just about anything.
You can still mail order live chicks
And boxes of spiders.
and crickets. although now i want to order my shitass brother surprise spiders for his birthday instead
I read your comment before the one you replied to and my mind certainly went somewhere other then farms
Not only that, USPS is the only "major" carrier who will do so.
and was forced do so by congress, by the gop back in the day.
It's funny to put major in quotes. If you look at shipping volumes then USPS is really the only major carrier. Since they have to deliver everywhere they deliver something like 120 billion things a year, where the second is like...7 billion.
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It’s still pretty common to mail live bees (nuclear colonies).
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With FedEx the child would be neither living or breathing when it arrived.
UPS the child would arrive with tire tracks on them and be thrown at the house from the road.
Ring camera video of driver yeeting child out the door of the truck and 20 feet to the porch
Literally watched an amazon driver do this the other day.
*I feel it's important to clarify I mean with a package, not a child
Happened to me too. Some electronics I had ordered.
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DHL the kid would be delivered two counties away to the wrong address and then they would refuse to take your calls when you try to figure out where it got dropped off.
Here's some context. Context
I do love that these postmen also just staight-up posed for photos with the babies they were carrying. Staight up the same shit we'd do now.
Also this seems like the exact kind of child endangerment that would happen in a Ghibli film.
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