Why Parents Used to Mail Their Babies
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Date: 2022-12-29
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Wise
This well done snippet of American history shows how far postal service has fallen in quality and cost. In the early 1900's 18 cents then adjusted for inflation is like $4. 45 today. In the 1940's I waited for Pete our mailman to deliver my Little Orphan Annie secret decoder, or other premiums for which I saved box tops. At that time postage for a first class letter or similar size/weight parcel was 3 cents. Mail delivery was twice daily M-F, and once on Saturday. Although mail is not as important as it once was, sending parcels today is a costly venture.
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This well done snippet of American history shows how far postal service has fallen in quality and cost. In the early 1900's 18 cents then adjusted for inflation is like $4. 45 today. In the 1940's I waited for Pete our mailman to deliver my Little Orphan Annie secret decoder, or other premiums for which I saved box tops. At that time postage for a first class letter or similar size/weight parcel was 3 cents. Mail delivery was twice daily M-F, and once on Saturday. Although mail is not as important as it once was, sending parcels today is a costly venture.
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Ataa
Why is this a shock?
we still do this in France
During the holidays, I used to work as a child traveller assistant, we would have over 50 kids per trip with tags around their neck and accompany them all over France on trains or planes.
They are generally going to meet up with other family members like grandparents or aunts and uncles, or simply the other parent if the parents are divorced
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Why is this a shock?
we still do this in France
During the holidays, I used to work as a child traveller assistant, we would have over 50 kids per trip with tags around their neck and accompany them all over France on trains or planes.
They are generally going to meet up with other family members like grandparents or aunts and uncles, or simply the other parent if the parents are divorced
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Meglet
15 cents then has the purchasing power of about $3. 50 today, and $50 then has the purchasing power of about $1, 400 today. (So a child was valued at $1, 400) Thats loosely calculated. Its often difficult to compare purchasing power between large periods of time because what we buy and why it costs what it does is so different now.
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15 cents then has the purchasing power of about $3. 50 today, and $50 then has the purchasing power of about $1, 400 today. (So a child was valued at $1, 400) Thats loosely calculated. Its often difficult to compare purchasing power between large periods of time because what we buy and why it costs what it does is so different now.
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Betsy
Just think, if television, telephone, and radio were never formed, our Paul Revere Post Office might still have an integral watch to log and manifest EKG of vocation for diplomacy. only on established vertical and diagonal districts instead of just horizontal ones
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Just think, if television, telephone, and radio were never formed, our Paul Revere Post Office might still have an integral watch to log and manifest EKG of vocation for diplomacy. only on established vertical and diagonal districts instead of just horizontal ones
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Amina
I wish this world was honestly safe enough where strangers could be trusted in this way. But unfortunately, not. I wouldnt be able to do that with my child. My family would just have to go without seeing them until I had safer transportation
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I wish this world was honestly safe enough where strangers could be trusted in this way. But unfortunately, not. I wouldnt be able to do that with my child. My family would just have to go without seeing them until I had safer transportation
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Carrisebear
My parents put a 3 and 6 year old on a 2. 5 hour flight alone. The flight attendants gave us cards, wings, and let us visit the pilot. I do remember putting salt instead of sugar into my Cheerios. Ah the 80s: )
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My parents put a 3 and 6 year old on a 2. 5 hour flight alone. The flight attendants gave us cards, wings, and let us visit the pilot. I do remember putting salt instead of sugar into my Cheerios. Ah the 80s: )
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Jackie
I remember when kids were sent on a plane or in a cab etc someplace where another adult would meet them. I wonder if that's no longer a thing? This was not long ago at all but people are far less trusting so idk. ..
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I remember when kids were sent on a plane or in a cab etc someplace where another adult would meet them. I wonder if that's no longer a thing? This was not long ago at all but people are far less trusting so idk. ..
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ROGUE
Package for BLANK!
Excuse me what is this?
Your baby Madame, tis a beautiful baby girl
Wh-
Husband: .OVER THE CLIFF THIS MONSTROSITY GOES! Only men are allowed in Sparta!
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Package for BLANK!
Excuse me what is this?
Your baby Madame, tis a beautiful baby girl
Wh-
Husband: .OVER THE CLIFF THIS MONSTROSITY GOES! Only men are allowed in Sparta!
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Christopher
Back in the day, children were not consist people, women didn't have the right to vote as only landowners could vote, that was before practicing pedophilles got into paralment
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Back in the day, children were not consist people, women didn't have the right to vote as only landowners could vote, that was before practicing pedophilles got into paralment
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Unoriginal_Name
look up albert fish and tell me the early 1900s was a safe place for kids
it was so much easier to get away with being a degenerate before modern forensics
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look up albert fish and tell me the early 1900s was a safe place for kids
it was so much easier to get away with being a degenerate before modern forensics
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Freddy
4: 04 Edna Naff, not Neff, was an ancestor of mine on my father's side from Virginia. My brother raced cars for her grandson Virgil in the Eighties, small world eh?
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4: 04 Edna Naff, not Neff, was an ancestor of mine on my father's side from Virginia. My brother raced cars for her grandson Virgil in the Eighties, small world eh?
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Roch
Now we can send people by the dozens in shipping containers. You just have to be careful not to get caught by customs, kind of like kinder eggs and Taiwanese mangoes.
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Now we can send people by the dozens in shipping containers. You just have to be careful not to get caught by customs, kind of like kinder eggs and Taiwanese mangoes.
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Delilah
The early 1900's were a simpler and safer time. except Albert Fish existed. One of the most brutal pedophiles and murderers known to human history.
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The early 1900's were a simpler and safer time. except Albert Fish existed. One of the most brutal pedophiles and murderers known to human history.
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KeepItSimple
Who the hell mails their new baby ONE MILE to Grandma's house? You could walk one mile in a few minutes! Somebody lost their mind!
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Who the hell mails their new baby ONE MILE to Grandma's house? You could walk one mile in a few minutes! Somebody lost their mind!
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Dannie
Why was the first thing I thought of was Cindy Lou Who from the Grinch tripping into the mail sorter with all the other packages
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Why was the first thing I thought of was Cindy Lou Who from the Grinch tripping into the mail sorter with all the other packages
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Krakker
The parents didn't pay $50 for insurance they paid that if anything happened they would receive $50 probably cost them $0. 05
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The parents didn't pay $50 for insurance they paid that if anything happened they would receive $50 probably cost them $0. 05
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Beverly
I should mail myself to my sister in Texas, heck of alot cheaper. Or So. Africa for a vacation way than $2000 ticket.
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I should mail myself to my sister in Texas, heck of alot cheaper. Or So. Africa for a vacation way than $2000 ticket.
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planescaped
Can I mail the heads of IRS agents to Maryland in a kind of Genghis khan way, or would they exceed weight limits?
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Can I mail the heads of IRS agents to Maryland in a kind of Genghis khan way, or would they exceed weight limits?
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Cats
Where can I sign up to get rid of my carpet grub and rug rat PLEASE more importantly where do I buy the express satchel
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Where can I sign up to get rid of my carpet grub and rug rat PLEASE more importantly where do I buy the express satchel
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Petra44YT
Well, today we have unaccompanied minors on planes. Why not send your small child with a postal worker on a train?
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Well, today we have unaccompanied minors on planes. Why not send your small child with a postal worker on a train?
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