Why Parents Used to Mail Their Babies

Sdílet
Vložit
  • čas přidán 31. 12. 2020
  • When American Parcel Post services launched on January 1, 1913, citizens suddenly found themselves with a revelatory new way of getting objects from point A to point B. And back in those days, "objects" often meant parcels in the form of unlikely entities like live chickens, bizarre medical supplies (such as cadavers), and even flesh-and-blood tots themselves. Yes, children were sent through the mail.
    #USPS #Mail #WeirdHistory
  • Zábava

Komentáře • 1,2K

  • @Ryanmanification
    @Ryanmanification Před 3 lety +1054

    "Congratulations, it's a boy"
    "I didn't order that"

  • @jacksparrowismydaddy
    @jacksparrowismydaddy Před 3 lety +1804

    "we're expecting a baby delivery"
    "but you don't look pregnant"
    "no, he's coming by mail."
    O.o

    • @MicRuLerZ
      @MicRuLerZ Před 3 lety +46

      You think that's where the term " delivering a baby" came from

    • @jacksparrowismydaddy
      @jacksparrowismydaddy Před 3 lety +16

      @@MicRuLerZ I think that term existed before the mail did.

    • @fluffy-fluffy5996
      @fluffy-fluffy5996 Před 3 lety +14

      @@jacksparrowismydaddy I think that was a joke.

    • @prettyvacant3605
      @prettyvacant3605 Před 3 lety +5

      😂😂

    • @jacksparrowismydaddy
      @jacksparrowismydaddy Před 3 lety +7

      @@fluffy-fluffy5996 fair enough. I'm too used to people correcting me when I make a joke. lol

  • @sethortiger
    @sethortiger Před 3 lety +1467

    No one tell Amazon about this.

  • @sonyagriffy
    @sonyagriffy Před 3 lety +990

    My Mom was born in the 30's and she would make jokes about mailing us places. Now I know why. RIP Mom.♥️

    • @stacyrussell460
      @stacyrussell460 Před 3 lety +36

      Guess it truly was a different era than we're used to. Your Mom was blessed. Sorry for your loss.

    • @lovelynaomi723
      @lovelynaomi723 Před 3 lety +13

      Aww sorry for your lost may she rest🥺❤️

    • @adamtschmidt4303
      @adamtschmidt4303 Před 3 lety +8

      my condolences. Sorry for your loss.

    • @deannairvine6123
      @deannairvine6123 Před 3 lety +8

      I DID ride into town with the mail lady (20 miles). I remember being bored because it took too long. Don’t know if she paid postage!

    • @rhondablevins4466
      @rhondablevins4466 Před 3 lety +6

      My mom said the same thing.

  • @Bo0o0oppp
    @Bo0o0oppp Před 3 lety +49

    The fact you cant even leave your kids in the car to grab something quick from the store nowadays but could mail your kids across the country less than a century ago is crazy.
    How far we've come 😂

  • @forgivenchildofGod
    @forgivenchildofGod Před 3 lety +973

    I’m glad Fed Ex wasn’t anywhere near this process.

    • @kmarch6630
      @kmarch6630 Před 3 lety +4

      Same thing I just commented.

    • @sasukeuchiha998
      @sasukeuchiha998 Před 3 lety +23

      Sorry, it'll cost you 152 to insure this package. Ah sorry, there was a service fee for processing your paperwork. WIth the initial 74 dollar charge for the weight of the baby and the box we'll be using. The total comes out to 251 dollars. We will deduct the amount from your credit card, thank you have a nice day.
      Really do hate the cost for sending stuff with Fed Ex and UPS.

    • @blobbertmcblob4888
      @blobbertmcblob4888 Před 3 lety +23

      Yeah Fed ex doesn't have good history with live animals
      They once "accidentally" ran over a shipment of baby ducklings I was expecting, leaving 3 out of the 12 alive.

    • @chrissiek8706
      @chrissiek8706 Před 3 lety +7

      @@blobbertmcblob4888 😲😳🥺😢

    • @JohnGalt916
      @JohnGalt916 Před 3 lety +6

      So many lost kids🤣

  • @zooeyzanger3318
    @zooeyzanger3318 Před 3 lety +644

    The child being insured for $50 didn't mean the parents paid that $50, but that the child was worth that, and the post office would pay them if the child was lost or killed on the journey.

    • @shellybane3277
      @shellybane3277 Před 3 lety +45

      They must have not valued their child very much if they were going to take those kinds of chances.

    • @zooeyzanger3318
      @zooeyzanger3318 Před 3 lety +39

      @@shellybane3277 the chances were likely in the child's favor, a child was mailed usually bc it was necessary.

    • @shellybane3277
      @shellybane3277 Před 3 lety +11

      @@zooeyzanger3318
      It must have been extremely urgent and there just was no other way, which I can imagine without access to a car or horse.

    • @zooeyzanger3318
      @zooeyzanger3318 Před 3 lety +21

      @@shellybane3277 usually they couldn't care for the child and had to send them elsewhere, but couldn't afford proper transport.

    • @shellybane3277
      @shellybane3277 Před 3 lety +8

      @@zooeyzanger3318 That makes sense. They did what they could.

  • @Addy0510
    @Addy0510 Před 3 lety +699

    The people from that decade were really like “let’s troll the people in the future to make them think we sent our kids in boxes in the mail, wouldn’t that be fun”

    • @Harith5
      @Harith5 Před 3 lety +6

      haha.. Brilliant

    • @arliesam948
      @arliesam948 Před 3 lety +4

      Perhaps

    • @b2kzangelalwayz
      @b2kzangelalwayz Před 3 lety +15

      I don’t know why anyone would think they were in a box.

    • @dianabrown5821
      @dianabrown5821 Před 3 lety

      I'm in!!!

    • @seyeonyaseec
      @seyeonyaseec Před 3 lety +2

      @@b2kzangelalwayz I thought they put them in a box with holes in it 🤷🏽‍♀️

  • @TheLanceFrazier
    @TheLanceFrazier Před 3 lety +340

    In 1927, my then five-year-old grandmother was placed alone on a passenger train in Virginia by her grandparents with whom she was staying. A note was pinned to her coat that simply had the destination in Kentucky where she would get off-along with a camel-back trunk full of her belongings. On schedule, her mother-my great-grandmother-picked her up from the correct train station and took her home. Of course, this would never happen today, but the thought that anyone would allow a little girl to travel alone for several hours by train--interstate-is mindblowing!

    • @Earet0
      @Earet0 Před 3 lety +47

      It happens today in Japan! Children as young as 5 make their own way to school. They navigate public transport including trains all on their own, every day! If you search it on CZcams i think Buzzfeed did a feature on it. It's amazing. Kids are more than capable - unfortunately other adults are obviously not always friendly. I guess Japan is safer

    • @bigmona2741
      @bigmona2741 Před 3 lety +38

      People do it today with airplanes

    • @xaenon
      @xaenon Před 3 lety +21

      @@Earet0 I did it on a Trailways bus in the 1970s. Boarded the bus in Seattle, successfully interchanged with several other buses, stepped off in Cincinnati only 30 minutes late. I was eight or maybe nine.
      Why, you may ask. Simple: A divorce. My mom decided she was moving back home to Cincinnati, where she had family. But the move got delayed, and school was going to start like 3 weeks before she would be able to make the trip. I stayed with my aunt (her sister) until she followed, and started school on time.
      People today would be aghast at this. But I really had no trouble at all.
      To be fair, though... I was told to check in with the bus station desk at every stop, and ask them to make sure I got on the right bus.

    • @yuricidal9738
      @yuricidal9738 Před 3 lety

      Ok

    • @writetomusic3652
      @writetomusic3652 Před 3 lety +11

      Its not that uncommon. I flew by myself from about age 7 to about 14.

  • @teen_gaming2591
    @teen_gaming2591 Před 3 lety +531

    I guess you can say they literally "delivered" babies 😂😂😂

  • @Thedrunkape96
    @Thedrunkape96 Před 3 lety +330

    I imagine that thousands of grandparents and great grandparents are going to be asked if they were ever mailed today.

  • @joebwannabe
    @joebwannabe Před 3 lety +490

    "Hey get maintenance over here, there's another kid stuck in the mail sorter!"

  • @MegaGangsta4life
    @MegaGangsta4life Před 3 lety +399

    If they used FedEx their babies would've never arrived 😂😂😂

    • @fanaticat1
      @fanaticat1 Před 3 lety +37

      If it were UPS, the kid would have been severely damaged!

    • @GetterBane
      @GetterBane Před 3 lety +28

      @@fanaticat1 It's optimistic of you to assume that the baby would even live

    • @connorulery8231
      @connorulery8231 Před 3 lety +12

      woulda just got tossed super hard into the back of the truck , especially if a fragile handle w care sign was on the box they really dont care there lol

    • @Princia_xo
      @Princia_xo Před 3 lety +2

      Or Hermes 🤣

    • @fanaticat1
      @fanaticat1 Před 3 lety

      @@GetterBane good point, I shudder at the thought of it.

  • @katiexx77
    @katiexx77 Před 3 lety +42

    It's an early version of having your child fly unaccompanied while being looked after by the airline.

  • @autobotrock4789
    @autobotrock4789 Před 3 lety +121

    As a child free mail carrier, I'm glad this practice was outlawed. Those things are heavy.

  • @suesue424
    @suesue424 Před 3 lety +1506

    Oh honey, don’t forget to mail jimmy today we’re having a family reunion.
    (Thanks for all of the likes!)

  • @tazhienunurbusinezz1703
    @tazhienunurbusinezz1703 Před 3 lety +132

    Hey, I was "mailed" in the 90s as a little kid. My great uncle was a rural postal carrier & I had to get to girl scout camp every day for a week. He handed me the mail & I'd stuff the boxes (probably illegal but he's long dead, I was like 10 & nobody cared).

    • @brodyszone157
      @brodyszone157 Před 3 lety +2

      Wow that's a great story, thx for sharing. So did they send the mail with that was already going that way. That's crazy but so neat.

    • @tazhienunurbusinezz1703
      @tazhienunurbusinezz1703 Před 3 lety +21

      @@brodyszone157 We lived 16 miles from town. He & my great aunt lived 18 miles from town. He'd pick me up at 6:30am. Then we'd go to the post office & load up the car with the day's mail & leave there by 7:05ish.
      Then we'd start the route. Id be in the passenger seat & he'd hand me the mail for the next stop at the mailbox that I just stuffed. (When I wasn't riding along, he usually drove from the middle of the bench seat of his car with his left side as he was a lefty so it worked.) Then we'd be back to town at about noonish, maybe a little later & he'd drop me at camp by 1pm. My parents would pick me up at 5 pm. It was a really great experience & I loved that man so much.

    • @rosegold973
      @rosegold973 Před 3 lety +3

      That’s such a cool story! 😀

    • @tazhienunurbusinezz1703
      @tazhienunurbusinezz1703 Před 3 lety +8

      @@rosegold973 Thanks, I guess it is but I just didn't realize how unique my experience was it until now. It's just something I grew up doing when I needed to get to town & my mother, who ran a home daycare & my father, who ran a large farm in the summer & worked as an engineer for a well known brand of snowmobiles & ATVs in the winter couldn't take me themselves. I also rode home from my grandmother's house in town with him & he'd drop me off either with my parent's mail at 10:50am or afterwards if I wanted to keep riding with him until he was done.
      I remember getting stuck during a blizzard with him when I was about 12 & we were taking turns shoveling, pushing the car & laughing our asses off. I was going with so he could help me pick up & then deliver girl scout cookies after we did the mail. It had snowed A LOT & he drove a maroon early 90s Buick in rural areas.

    • @cmont4064
      @cmont4064 Před 3 lety +3

      @@tazhienunurbusinezz1703 Absolutely an amazing story, loved it. Especially loved how much fun you guys shared. What a wonderful Uncle you had, it seems you both cared for each other immensely♥️

  • @AveryTalksAboutStuff
    @AveryTalksAboutStuff Před 3 lety +108

    See, I felt bad when I mailed Flat Stanley to my friend in 3rd grade so it's insane that some people were like, "let's mail our actual kid".

    • @brodyszone157
      @brodyszone157 Před 3 lety +3

      What's a flat Stanley? Sorry idk. Just curious

    • @AveryTalksAboutStuff
      @AveryTalksAboutStuff Před 3 lety +20

      @@brodyszone157 there was that book Flat Stanley and there were these cardboard cutouts of the main character and it was a thing in the 90s to take him or send him places and then collect all the pictures of him at different landmarks and stuff. I was homeschooled if you couldn't tell 😂

    • @lindamaemullins5151
      @lindamaemullins5151 Před 3 lety

      @@AveryTalksAboutStuff 😂🥰

    • @mrsmacca126
      @mrsmacca126 Před 3 lety +4

      Avery Talks About Stuff FlatStanley!!!! Omg. Takes me back!

    • @yuricidal9738
      @yuricidal9738 Před 3 lety

      Ok

  • @grapeshot
    @grapeshot Před 3 lety +233

    When I drove for Greyhound we had 7 and 8 year old kids they were traveling alone and they had a program where us bus drivers would watch them and make sure they get on the right bus if they were transferring to another bus or made sure they meet their party once they got to the bus station.

    • @cabanissmedia2751
      @cabanissmedia2751 Před 3 lety +35

      I rode a plane by myself from California to orlando when i was 5. I'M STILL HERE 🤣 I'm 44 now

    • @ninagill1407
      @ninagill1407 Před 3 lety +18

      @@cabanissmedia2751 I flew on my own from India back to England on a pan am flight. I was 6.

    • @lolaveneziana6999
      @lolaveneziana6999 Před 3 lety +22

      I flew Pan Am from NY to Milano, Italy and back in the summers from the age of 2 to 6.... A stewardess would watch me in flight... It was a special service the airline offered

    • @ffjsb
      @ffjsb Před 3 lety +8

      I rode a Greyhound bus from Albion Ill. all the way to St. Louis with my little brother. (basically all the way across the state of Ill.) That was sometime in the late 60's, I don't remember any problems at all, or being scared. A bit different from flying, as they stopped in many of the towns we went through.

    • @yuricidal9738
      @yuricidal9738 Před 3 lety

      Ok

  • @vittxrio5198
    @vittxrio5198 Před 3 lety +168

    Imagine being a mailman, new to the job, then suddenly you've got to deliver the mails, with babies on it.

    • @yuricidal9738
      @yuricidal9738 Před 3 lety

      Ok

    • @rollingthunder4599
      @rollingthunder4599 Před 3 lety

      They only delivered mail to post offices, no home deliveries

    • @ginniekinz5401
      @ginniekinz5401 Před 3 lety +1

      My Nanny was mailed as a young girl. She said the whole trip, the mailman on the train would look at her, shake his head and say “it’s a bloody shame.” 😂

  • @lindan236
    @lindan236 Před 3 lety +25

    Imagine a baby being delivered to the wrong address. The look on the recipient's face would be priceless.

    • @Hello-ye2bi
      @Hello-ye2bi Před 3 lety

      I ordered a dozen chicks from Happy Hatchery. This kid arrived. Please send Bill back to Albuquerque and my chicken eggs to my home in Anytown, USA where I live"

  • @_desert_runner_8988
    @_desert_runner_8988 Před 3 lety +42

    So back in the day “ handle with care “ actually meant something....

    • @kstormgeistgem461
      @kstormgeistgem461 Před 3 lety +1

      yeah, but keep in mind, this was a time period when if somebody screwed up, the parents could/would Physically beat the tar out of them instead of, ya know, just suing them or calling the cops.
      so i would imagine there'd be a lot fewer cases of, "hey, my kid could stand up straight Before i sent him with you guys! now he's all hunched over... whathell ya do to him... put'im in too small a box?!?"

  • @edgarcit0z
    @edgarcit0z Před 3 lety +170

    Now thats WEIRD HISTORY

  • @wendywarrior2264
    @wendywarrior2264 Před 3 lety +2

    My grandparents had a prefab home sent by rail. It still stands today, with my cousin now the owner! And it’s beautiful!

  • @manubird2475
    @manubird2475 Před 3 lety +46

    Interesting history. But you might not know that this practice of shipping kids is alive and well, at least in pre-COVID times. Let me give you an example: Fifteen years ago, our 14 year-old granddaughter needed to travel by herself from the Western Caroline Islands of Micronesia through Guam to Honolulu, a trip of 5000 miles involving 2 customs and immigration interrogations. I paid a sizeable surcharge to the airline to make sure someone cared for her at every step in her journey. When she exited customs in Honolulu with her shadow, I had to produce IDs proving that I wasn't some kind of pervert. That surcharge was worth every cent. Although not widely known, airlines have offered similar services for a long time, though not for babes still in diapers. With so many divorces and child custody issues, minor kids must travel by themselves. They no longer travel in a box with stamps on it, but in a sense, they are still "shipped".

    • @GroundersSourceOfficial
      @GroundersSourceOfficial Před 2 lety

      That's called "unaccompained minors." If a severely mentally disabled person had to fly solo, the same techniques would be applied too, if provided that their guardian will take care of the paperwork.

  • @mikatu
    @mikatu Před 3 lety +22

    In Switzerland, the Postal Services operate Bus lines... they deliver mail and people at the same time. And you don't need stamps, just a normal bus ticket.

  • @swastikqjana7128
    @swastikqjana7128 Před 3 lety +297

    We humans are weird...there's no fault that they named this chanel " weird history"😶

    • @ultimatebishoujo29
      @ultimatebishoujo29 Před 3 lety +1

      I know right?

    • @tiamarie6719
      @tiamarie6719 Před 3 lety +1

      That's a good point. Also, this is an interesting video since it's unusual; although if I had kids I wouldn't mail them because, there's lots of things that could go wrong with that which I don't even want to mention. Those people mentioned were lucky. I also already knew about this before watching the video. When I read the title I thought, "Although the practice was strange and wouldn't be allowed today for obvious reasons, back then it was cheaper to mail children than to buy railroad tickets for a lot of people." But, I didn't know the other facts in this video until now. Also, those other strange things that were mailed back then sounded very dangerous. I can't believe they were allowed! Especially the sample containing the smallpox virus that wasn't sealed very well!

    • @swastikqjana7128
      @swastikqjana7128 Před 3 lety

      @@tiamarie6719 yes.youre right....I was thinking the same....thank God the child's were safe...

    • @sheilatagg2699
      @sheilatagg2699 Před 3 lety

      One of my son's was around that weight at the same age. This was while he was breastfed.

  • @andrewjvaughan
    @andrewjvaughan Před 3 lety +227

    “the parcel was insured for $50” - they marked the value of the shipment as $50, that’s not what they paid

    • @RaniaIsAwesome
      @RaniaIsAwesome Před 3 lety +4

      $50? damn, some parents be having notions about their kids.

    • @jbj7599
      @jbj7599 Před 3 lety +19

      So basically if the baby/kid dies they get paid $50? Weird!
      1915 exchange rate makes that roughly $1,200.

    • @tombruner9634
      @tombruner9634 Před 3 lety +1

      The current rate, if I'm interpreting the chart correctly, is $2.25 for up to $50 insurance. I didn't look hard enough to see what that was in the nineteen-teens, it may have actually been higher for all I know. Postal insurance covers loss or damage, so if the baby died of natural causes or something like asphyxiation, but was delivered in one piece, then the claim would likely not have been paid.

    • @cherrypink1108
      @cherrypink1108 Před 3 lety

      @@jbj7599 I thought something like that too like the baby dies then what? I didn't think about how they'd get 50 bucks lol.

    • @languay1
      @languay1 Před 3 lety +3

      Literally and figuratively priceless cargo.

  • @restock_1731
    @restock_1731 Před 3 lety +65

    How would mail baby insurance work? Would they get their money back or would someone just give them a random kid?

    • @fanaticat1
      @fanaticat1 Před 3 lety +4

      😂👍

    • @Leotv19
      @Leotv19 Před 3 lety +2

      $ so you can buy a new baby

    • @timmmahhhh
      @timmmahhhh Před 3 lety +10

      That's a great question! Okay here's your voucher go to the orphanage and pick another one lol.

    • @rosegold973
      @rosegold973 Před 3 lety +2

      @@Leotv19 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @XSemperIdem5
      @XSemperIdem5 Před 3 lety +3

      Just the $50. You can go buy another one or spend it as you wish. 😅

  • @aquariandawn4750
    @aquariandawn4750 Před 3 lety +4

    I was so excited when I found out that I could support a child in Africa for less than a dollar a day... I just didn't realize how much it would cost to send my child over there.

  • @1HeatWalk
    @1HeatWalk Před 3 lety +38

    "The mail men were highly trusted in the community". This must be where the old cliche of your wife cheating with the mail man came from.

  • @shannonschultz8187
    @shannonschultz8187 Před 3 lety +251

    "Would you fedex your baby? Let us know in the comments below" 🤣

    • @ohmeowzer1
      @ohmeowzer1 Před 3 lety +11

      I have 6 of them , hmmmmm we live in upstate NY..hmmmm sometimes I would like too..lol 😂😂😂

    • @yuricidal9738
      @yuricidal9738 Před 3 lety

      Ok

    • @jacockistitsworth9392
      @jacockistitsworth9392 Před 3 lety +5

      @@ohmeowzer1 print out some return labels

  • @emmaonthefarm1085
    @emmaonthefarm1085 Před 3 lety +15

    Actually as a child I regularly flew with Lufthansa between Germany where I lived with my mother and England during school holidays to see my father , I was about 9 when I first started and I did that three times a year right up untill we returned to England some four years later . I would be assigns a air hostess to kind of chaperone and she would make sure I was handed over to the person waiting for me at the other end , I believe it’s a service they offer

    • @ninaqueena1
      @ninaqueena1 Před 3 lety +4

      I had a very similar experience at the same age (9-11) when I was attending boarding school in England. I remember that my mom flew from the US to England with me only once for my first time going to the school and whenever I came back for Holidays I always flew by myself

  • @asiag6863
    @asiag6863 Před 3 lety +3

    It made sense back then.
    The mail system was differant then than it is now. They would have been accompanied by a post person the whole time.

  • @CristinaAshley8
    @CristinaAshley8 Před 3 lety +1

    Our little town was actually renamed after our mailman back in 1918.
    Mr. Gustine ran mail all throughout rural Texas and lived in Cora from the towns making in 1882 until 1919.

  • @thatonedog819
    @thatonedog819 Před 3 lety +4

    "don't talk to strangers"
    *mails kids *

  • @kingiginrosie8992
    @kingiginrosie8992 Před 3 lety +5

    Lol! When our kids stated they missed their Grandparents, we'd joke and tease we'll send them COD!

  • @jonatackfamilyfriends6176

    I used to work in an old folks' home and actually heard about this from the seniors I cared for - it was a cheap way for farm families to bring orphans from the city to the country. One guy I worked with remembered how his adopted 'cousins' arrived by post. He could have been pulling my leg, but...

  • @patmccamy4126
    @patmccamy4126 Před 3 lety +1

    I had known about this but forgot! Very interesting! So glad it was stopped before someone was hurt or kidnapped! Pat

  • @PRODUCEDBYKEV
    @PRODUCEDBYKEV Před 3 lety +3

    Growing up in the 60s (and into the early 70s), we knew our mailman or lady by whole name; knew where a couple of them lived.

  • @elizabethshaw734
    @elizabethshaw734 Před 3 lety +50

    He was insured for $50. They didn't pay $50 to insure him for that amount.

    • @brodyszone157
      @brodyszone157 Před 3 lety +1

      I just mailed a package yesterday it's still 50 bux for the insurance even if the item cost me nothing.

    • @gracehaven5459
      @gracehaven5459 Před 3 lety +6

      Sorry we lost your baby here's fifty bucks 😅🤣

    • @zooeyzanger3318
      @zooeyzanger3318 Před 3 lety +1

      @@brodyszone157 no it's not, it's based on the worth of the item.

    • @Inamichan
      @Inamichan Před 3 lety

      Grace Haven someone converted it and $50 then would be $1200 now. I think I could part with a kid for that much 😂

    • @virginiataylor4038
      @virginiataylor4038 Před 3 lety +1

      The insurance cost is not the amount that can be collected if the package is lost, stolen, or damaged. That being said, their is still no amount of money that can replace the value of a human life.

  • @seagecko
    @seagecko Před 3 lety +4

    I flew unaccompanied as a child, and it felt pretty much like I was a package. Had a tag round my neck and a badge. And was signed for at both ends... And boarded first and had a good seat at the front.
    And one memorable flight I was moved into business class. I was older than four though... I was just into my teens

  • @DEADisBEAUTIFUL
    @DEADisBEAUTIFUL Před 3 lety +2

    Can you imagine mailing people these days? Kids would be lost in the mail, and when they finally get dropped off a week and a half late.....it’s at the neighbors house, someone will steal the “package” off the front porch, and the Ring camera will catch all of it except who the thief is.

    • @StrangeScaryNewEngland
      @StrangeScaryNewEngland Před 3 lety

      And don't forget the kid will probably be banged up and broken with extra tape on it

  • @l.m.2404
    @l.m.2404 Před 3 lety +3

    I suspect that this practice was a holdover from the British Postal Service which, even today, is used as a bus service in very remote areas of the UK. I write bus service in the most stretched sense of the word, you can catch a ride with the postal truck to the closest point that you need to go. I enjoy these quirky videos... keep them going. Cheers for the new year, 2021.

  • @tempolost
    @tempolost Před 3 lety +6

    Flat out ridiculous!

  • @ama.mensss
    @ama.mensss Před 3 lety +53

    Hello people of 2021. Happy new year

  • @jadedmist
    @jadedmist Před 3 lety +2

    I had to tell my grandmother about this, she found it hilarious that people actually did this.

  • @tiaarns
    @tiaarns Před 3 lety +20

    REQUEST...I would like to see a video about school teachers, the rules they had to live by? Were they really under strict social guidelines? Were the rules for students as bizarre as I have read?

  • @amywhite9972
    @amywhite9972 Před 3 lety +6

    I'm sorry.. But i can't help but wonder if any of these baby's that were mailed, were anything like my son? I love my son to pieces and he's 17 now but dear God, that child screamed the first years of his life. He didn't cry, he screamed!! And if we didn't figure out what he wanted fast, he'd get mad. It got to the point we'd have his bottle ready before he wanted it. So when the crying started we could be faster because if you weren't fast enough, then the anger would set in and he'd never stop crying. When he got older we learned he was severe ADHD but the first few years were rough.
    So wonder what happened when people mailed babies like ours?? Boy i bet that would make for a long long day for the mailman... 👀👀

  • @julienielsen3746
    @julienielsen3746 Před 3 lety +11

    Makes me think of Wally and Beaver on "Leave it to Beaver" when they trusted Wally to get Beaver to his aunt's to visit. Beaver ended up getting on the wrong train halfway there, looking for Wally. Wally ended up at the aunt's and Beaver ended up on the train going back home.

  • @beach3girl459
    @beach3girl459 Před 3 lety +36

    "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds"

  • @just_a_turtle_chad
    @just_a_turtle_chad Před 3 lety +110

    A Turtle doesn't approve mailing ur babies

    • @JayantVermaYT
      @JayantVermaYT Před 3 lety +4

      JayantVermaYT also disapproves.

    • @gtfanatic
      @gtfanatic Před 3 lety +3

      Does Turtle recognize the country of Israel

    • @vrba243
      @vrba243 Před 3 lety +2

      A monke doesnt approve it either

    • @yoda105
      @yoda105 Před 3 lety +3

      Does turtle approve of the Armenian genocide

    • @supportyourtroopsathletes6460
      @supportyourtroopsathletes6460 Před 3 lety

      My pet albino and snow Turtles don't agree either, no worries.

  • @pamelamays4186
    @pamelamays4186 Před 3 lety +77

    When you get a Bill in the mail and you're happy about it.👶📬

  • @kae5717
    @kae5717 Před 3 lety +3

    That was a genuinely remarkable experience. And hilarious. I might have to do more research into this so I can have a good trivia for the next family gathering

  • @WW-wo4oq
    @WW-wo4oq Před 3 lety +15

    Do a video on how parenting recommendations have changed!
    People use to leave babies outside for naps, even have balcony cages for them to lay out.
    Feeding recommendations were too soon and ridiculous. And parents were even once told to not hold their babies. Car baby hammocks. ETC

  • @ashleykrowiorz2246
    @ashleykrowiorz2246 Před 3 lety +3

    My mom used to joke she was gonna mail me to my grandma all the time when I was little.

  • @brodyszone157
    @brodyszone157 Před 3 lety +77

    My daughter was 11 when she went alone on a airplane but she had a lady that worked for the airline take care of her. Now the scary part was when she returned alone back home my car broke down when I was on my way to pick her up so I panicked but the airport sent a car to me and I went to the airport looking everywhere because she wasn't where they thought she was but instead she was behind the counter helping these ppl work and she was weighing luggage. It was so amazing how they took such good care of her. I had canceled at least 4 trips because I had my scary doubts. But my dad really wanted to see her. Now she is 24 and I am having a 2nd baby jus found out I'm 13 weeks pregnant lol life is so funny.

  • @danam.8709
    @danam.8709 Před 3 lety +41

    A child of 8 months who only weighed 11 pounds was starved. I pray God his grandparents took better care of him.

    • @serenamarie8026
      @serenamarie8026 Před 3 lety +11

      I was looking for this comment, maybe they meant 8 weeks? Or just have the wrong information! It wouldn't be the first time.

    • @mysteriouscreations8459
      @mysteriouscreations8459 Před 3 lety +9

      People and children were smaller then. Over the years people continue to get taller and heavier.

    • @thatonedog819
      @thatonedog819 Před 3 lety +4

      @@mysteriouscreations8459 it wasn't that long ago though

    • @njgiggles100
      @njgiggles100 Před 3 lety +6

      Hormones and processed foods make us bigger today. An 8 month old who weighed 11lb was normal then. And formulas have more calories and make babies bigger. They didn't have formula then

    • @abigailwrigley6462
      @abigailwrigley6462 Před 3 lety

      @@njgiggles100 in southern England in 1923 out of the lowest income bracket the lightest baby at 12 months was recorded at 20lb. Whilst 11lb is not impossible I think it is far from normal.

  • @Autumnh141983
    @Autumnh141983 Před rokem

    I live in Grangeville, ID, and this was really fun to hear. I had to share this with my fellow friends here. Thank you for sharing this!

  • @rollingthunder4599
    @rollingthunder4599 Před 3 lety +2

    Gives new meaning to, "This side up, fragile"

  • @ama.mensss
    @ama.mensss Před 3 lety +96

    “The boy wore a tag about his neck, showing it had cost 18 cents”
    This sounds like slavery rather than mailing

    • @_strawberryshortcake_8932
      @_strawberryshortcake_8932 Před 3 lety +4

      LOL

    • @yepitsme431
      @yepitsme431 Před 3 lety +12

      Look out !! we have a snowflake in da house !!!

    • @yepitsme431
      @yepitsme431 Před 3 lety +2

      @@nathalie1091 its raining snowflakes today lmao !!! xD

    • @Tisuoi
      @Tisuoi Před 3 lety +5

      That's a real stretch there. I just picture someone pushing a string through their printed out Uber receipt, wearing it as a necklace and then yelling "SLAVERY!"

    • @yepitsme431
      @yepitsme431 Před 3 lety

      @@Tisuoi LOL

  • @hatsumi5303
    @hatsumi5303 Před 3 lety +6

    Then: You can mail a child and it's 100% safe!
    Now: Your mail WILL get damaged even with tons of bubble wrap.

  • @kdbee6086
    @kdbee6086 Před 3 lety +16

    Mine would have chewed through the box and tied up the poor mail person!

    • @StrangeScaryNewEngland
      @StrangeScaryNewEngland Před 3 lety +1

      Unfortunately back then the mailman probably would've beat the crap out of your kid until they behaved

  • @LucidDreamer54321
    @LucidDreamer54321 Před 3 lety +2

    You can still do this now. There is no requirement to list contents of a package for domestic mail.

  • @americanthundergod9749
    @americanthundergod9749 Před 3 lety +24

    Dude I used to joke around about how my mom shipped my ass fedex to live with my dad but holy crap I didn’t realize this actually happened back on the day!

    • @supportyourtroopsathletes6460
      @supportyourtroopsathletes6460 Před 3 lety

      You were lost in the mail.

    • @americanthundergod9749
      @americanthundergod9749 Před 3 lety

      @@supportyourtroopsathletes6460 nope

    • @supportyourtroopsathletes6460
      @supportyourtroopsathletes6460 Před 3 lety

      @@americanthundergod9749 dang it, it sounded good anyhow. At least most parents at times would of loved for their kids to be lost in the mail. My kids are young adults now and as of even tonight with my son waking me up knowing I got to work, I wished he was lost in the mail also.

    • @americanthundergod9749
      @americanthundergod9749 Před 3 lety +1

      @@supportyourtroopsathletes6460 nah I was a good kid for the most part. My mom just knew I’d rather have lived with dad. When they started their divorce I gave her a hard time. Wish I hadn’t now but it is what it is.

  • @hotshotdesigner
    @hotshotdesigner Před 3 lety +10

    imagine checking your mailbox and finding your baby cousin in the mail box

  • @AlphaMom55
    @AlphaMom55 Před 3 lety +2

    Can't wait to see what UPS and Amazon bring me tomorrow.

  • @mrmidnight8975
    @mrmidnight8975 Před 3 lety +5

    Jeff bezoooo to management team : guys can we do something like this ?

  • @grapeshot
    @grapeshot Před 3 lety +55

    Those wacky Victorians and Edwardians.

  • @lindak8664
    @lindak8664 Před 3 lety +2

    In 1990 my toddler son was being a little turd in the post office. I told him to stop mucking up or i’d send him to Siberia (from Sydney Australia). The postal clerk had a fabulous sense of humour, so we put him on the scales and it was only going to coat $20something. It was pretty tempting, but I eventually decided against it.

  • @diegorosales7151
    @diegorosales7151 Před 3 lety +1

    Recently discovered this channel and i am fascinated by the content, your videos answer questions that i didn’t even know i had, keep up the good work.

  • @megacide84
    @megacide84 Před 3 lety

    Sending children and smallpox through the mail...This is comedy gold lol!

  • @caitlynmarie2677
    @caitlynmarie2677 Před 3 lety +18

    I read the title in my notifications and I said “wait, what?! Does that really say...?! Wait. Who the frick is mailing their children?!”

  • @BennyB5555
    @BennyB5555 Před 3 lety +26

    Wow 576 views in just 5 minutes! Hey when I was a kid us neighborhood kids used to ask the mailman to give us a ride on his mail jeep. Yes everyone knew him. His nickname was was “Stan the mailman.” - We kids used to all hop on the mail truck and he would give us a ride to the end of the block. Then after we kids would jump off he would give us all gum bands to play with and shoot each other’s eyes out (joke!) - It was a simple time then. We didn’t need much to be entertained. That would never happen these days. Too much paranoia from all sides these days. I am glad I was able to experience that. Thanks Stan!

  • @shotcaller852
    @shotcaller852 Před 3 lety +1

    Ok. I just subscribed. This is some wild, weird History! Very cool! And, no, I wouldn't mail my babies... Lol.

  • @legoqueen2445
    @legoqueen2445 Před 3 lety +1

    My first real job here in Australia was at a train station. We had some sort of postal delivery service. Weirdest thing sent by train postage was live chickens and blood products (in a cooler). These packages would be left at the end of the platform and because they were so rare I'd often forget until I'd get a call from a train driver telling me to go get the package.

  • @loggerjones3038
    @loggerjones3038 Před 3 lety +86

    Virgin current mail: can barely manages some paper ballots
    Chad old mail: a baby? Ye bruv i got ya

    • @gracehaven5459
      @gracehaven5459 Před 3 lety +4

      oh f*** off with the ballots 🤣 if they were so tampered with the Senators would be mostly voted Democrat too instead they were mostly Republican... they were on the same ballots! Smart one

    • @geminico61
      @geminico61 Před 3 lety +7

      @@gracehaven5459 i don’t think that’s what they’re saying.. people were having to get their ballots in the mail months in advance in order to get them there on time

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage Před 3 lety +16

    Well.. when the kid has the mailman's eyes already....

  • @maidenminnesota1
    @maidenminnesota1 Před 3 lety +1

    I knew this used to be a practice, and I like my mailman. He's friendly, very personable, always waves or stops for a quick chat, but I don't even know his name, nor would I mail my kids or grandkids with him.

  • @lovenothate
    @lovenothate Před 3 lety +1

    They still do this on trains and planes. It’s called “unaccompanied minor.” Sat next to one such child, age 6, on my last flight. More expensive these days and the children are treated a little better, but not really different

  • @JOkERBIDEN
    @JOkERBIDEN Před 3 lety +28

    I hear WAYFAIR mails kids all over the world

  • @sketcharmstrong8491
    @sketcharmstrong8491 Před 3 lety +3

    "Got some mail here for you...Junk....Junk. 20% off Bed, bath and beyond. That's a keeper....Junk....Junk. Oh look, it's a boy." 😂☠🤣

  • @auroraboobiealice6352
    @auroraboobiealice6352 Před 3 lety +1

    Stamps depicting children being mailed would be awesome.

  • @Robert-xp4ii
    @Robert-xp4ii Před 3 lety +1

    I'm thinking about those videos where FedEx, UPS, etc delivery people are seen throwing and kicking boxes. LOL "Hang on Suzy! It's gonna be a rough ride."

  • @lornabarrie5371
    @lornabarrie5371 Před 3 lety +3

    If this was in the UK, hermes would drop kick the kids to people's doors or stuff them in the recycle bin marked kept in a safe place 😂

  • @ivanm3045
    @ivanm3045 Před 3 lety +4

    what a way to kick off the new year

  • @loralee4848
    @loralee4848 Před 3 lety +2

    Happy New Year! So good to hear your voice reminding us that life has always been weird. 😱♥️🦋

  • @rogersledz6793
    @rogersledz6793 Před 3 lety +1

    Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me to get through the pandemic!

  • @E.K.2003
    @E.K.2003 Před 3 lety +3

    "How are we sending her?" "COD." "Huh? "Child On Delivery!"

  • @Bot-tm7hs
    @Bot-tm7hs Před 3 lety +3

    As an ex package handler, I can assure you that shipping your child is not safe

  • @hs5167
    @hs5167 Před 3 lety +1

    When I was four, I remember my grandma and I riding in a UPS truck from the Greyhound bus station to the small town in Texas my uncle lived in. I got to sit in the back next to the crate of baby chicks.

  • @Amstro515
    @Amstro515 Před 3 lety +2

    What a good way to start the new year!!!

  • @waflletoast11
    @waflletoast11 Před 3 lety +11

    no one:
    wayfair: interesting 👀👀👀👀.....

  • @saitojharry
    @saitojharry Před 3 lety +4

    3:33 also, pelts, carcasses and legendary fishes. 🤠

  • @timelordthedoctor3082
    @timelordthedoctor3082 Před 3 lety +1

    Thank you and May The Force be with you always!

  • @nmoney6655
    @nmoney6655 Před 2 lety +2

    Everybody gangsta until they find a kid in their mail

  • @snitcheyes411
    @snitcheyes411 Před 3 lety +5

    How long do you think until Amazon Prime starts offering this service?

  • @susanfudge1737
    @susanfudge1737 Před 3 lety +3

    Just to clarify, these kids were given rides.

  • @Richie90090
    @Richie90090 Před 3 lety

    Unbelievable! .. Thanks for post

  • @marycavender7136
    @marycavender7136 Před 3 lety

    This is truly bizarre! I never heard of such a tell!