Well… perhaps they should be looking at the H in DHL like that.

Just knowing about FedEx and the shit they pull, if they did ship a kid you'd never hear about it.

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.

now the GOP is trying to USPS to discredit mail in ballots.

Fun fact: USPS still ships livestock

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.

Miss me with the pro-privatized corporate slop. Where my public service homies at?

Context

Tbf most of the other companies were not around back then (100 years ago) so maybe they would have also shipped kids (for profit)...

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.

Nothing sent by DHL, UPS or Fedex is mail.

With FedEx the child would be neither living or breathing when it arrived.

Still would use over fedex

Royal mail posted more....

Where the kids safe and healthy when they arrived?

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.

It's the living and breathing part the others have a problem with.