Just knowing about FedEx and the shit they pull, if they did ship a kid you’d never hear about it.
Tbf most of the other companies were not around back then (100 years ago) so maybe they would have also shipped kids (for profit)…
It was only domestic shipping.
The US also had a history of shipping people as cargo across the ocean for profit.
Maybe
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.Hearing this quirky description makes me think Picard Maneuver is shilling against mail-in voting, given the timing.
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).
Thought this was some ICE news I hadn’t heard about.
Nothing sent by DHL, UPS or Fedex is mail.
You mean by definition? Because FedEx started out as an overnight alternative to US mail, to send important documents across the country for signing.
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.
yeah they’re parcel services, not mail services
Where the kids safe and healthy when they arrived?
Still would use over fedex
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.
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.
It’s the living and breathing part the others have a problem with.
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.
They were breathing when they stamped em.
Didn’t know they delivered to Epstein Island /jk
