Talk:Human mail
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I think some suffragettes might've tried to mail themselves to 10 Downing Street as a publicity stunt. I'll see if I can find the details. 80.41.85.205 08:44, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
Yes. One was my Grandmother, Elspeth McClelland. It is mentioned in the book "Women of Ideas and What Men have Done to Them" pp 581-582. This was entirely legal, and I have been wondering how best to edit the article to reflect this. My copy of the book is in storage at the moment, although it can be found at Google Books by searching for "elspeth mcclelland suffragette". Pdspencer (talk) 22:22, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
Propose removing "In popular culture" section
[edit]I propose either removing the trivia section or at least cutting it down so it's not the majority of the article. Thoughts? Kansan (talk) 21:04, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
Tidbits added
[edit]I am still new, so please notify me if you see any errors I may have made. While reading this interesting article I had questions about the years of occurrences and ages of the subjects. I looked this info up and added it since I thought it would be of some benefit. I'm trying to add a reference to the German prison escapee. I see that the orig. ref is intact, but am having a hard time adding mine. If I'm unable to resolve this momentarily - I will do so soon. The ref I want to add is: http://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/16/prisoner-escapes-jail-by-mailing-himself-out-in-a-box/ Albeit27 (talk) 09:48, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
- Dang, still unable to fix ref - will seek help from a kind and experienced editor who help's me out now and then. Albeit27 (talk) 09:59, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
- Low and behold - looks ok now :) However, will still seek guidence/review from mentor because there are too many ref's numbered "1". No worries, I'll be back to fix soon! Albeit27 (talk) 10:07, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
- All is ok now, lol - thanks to my awesome mentor. Cheers all. Albeit27 (talk) 09:08, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
- Low and behold - looks ok now :) However, will still seek guidence/review from mentor because there are too many ref's numbered "1". No worries, I'll be back to fix soon! Albeit27 (talk) 10:07, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
Mailing Babies by Parcel Post
[edit]esp. in the USA before it was getting illegal in 1913: How many used this service ? If that was practiced in more than hunded cases or so, it should be mentioned in this article. Or is it a hoax? --Scriberius (talk) 21:48, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
- www.genealogybank.com
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/2584174182/] with a photo from National Postal Museum (humorous photograph with a young boy in his mailbag)
--Scriberius (talk) 21:48, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
- That pic seems to have been going viral on social media in the last few days. This site: [1] quotes the Smithsonian as saying "at least two children were sent by the service". So probably not hundreds, but still worth a mention? HairyDan (talk) 11:19, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
It is a bit misleading.
The wiki page links here: http://www.centralfloridastampclub.org/pages/pics3/022015insa.pdf
This wasn't a case of sealing a child in a box. It was more like the letter carrier transporting the child over a short distance like a taxi service.