Mail Week: When Americans Could Mail Their Children From Place To Place

This week we're re-delivering some of our favorite episodes about letters, packages and deliveries. In this episode from February 2020, a family in Grangeville, Idaho sends a four year old through the mail to her grandmother in Lewiston, 73 miles away. And she wasn’t the only kid to travel this way after the US Postal Service began the parcel post. Plus: the group Electronicos Fantasticos makes some fascinating music with bar code scanners. ⁠A Brief History of Children Sent Through the Mail⁠ (Smithsonian) ⁠We Used to be Able to Send Children in the Mail⁠ (KQED) ⁠Barcoders Jamming⁠ (Electronicos Fantasticos on YouTube) ⁠Backing Cool Weird Awesome on Patreon is just as great as getting a birthday check in the mail!