Mailing babies: The story of kids sent through the U.S. Postal Service, 1913
Mailing babies: The story of kids sent through the U.S. Postal Service, 1913 A US postman carrying a baby boy along with his letters, USA. 1900s. A US postman carrying a baby boy along with his letters, USA. 1900s. It’s hard to believe it, for a brief period of 6 years, it was possible to mail a baby or small child through the U.S. Postal Service. Yeah, you heard it right, it was legal to mail a baby in the United States and it happened more than once and by all accounts. In 1913, The United States Postal Service introduced parcel posts. Before then, all packages sent by mail had to weigh 4 pounds (1.8 kg) or under. With the commencement of the parcel service, people could now ship anything below 50 pounds (23 kg). But almost immediately, it had some unintended consequences as some parents tried to send their children through the mail. According to National Postal Museum historian Nancy Pope, the first known case of a mailed baby was in 1913 when Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Be...