November 21, 2006: Boy sent as postage
 

http://cellar.org/2006/boysentaspostage.jpg

xoB finds this pic, and highlights a section of text, from the Smithsonian Photography Initiative. It highlights a different time in history, when we didn't know it might be inappropriate to mail certain items.

Straight faces
 

I hear the photographer:

From the USPS website:

Hazard Classes
For purposes of transportation and shipping, federal regulations assign each hazardous material to one of the following nine hazard classes. The following list provides examples of items that are subject to mailing restrictions or prohibitions.

• Class 1: Explosives
Fireworks, ammunition, fuses, model rocket engines

• Class 2: Gases
Aerosols, air bag inflators, scuba tanks

• Class 3: Flammable Liquids
Gasoline, some paints or inks, varnishes, alcoholic beverages

• Class 4: Flammable Solids
Some cosmetics, matches, signal flares

• Class 5: Oxidizers and Organic Peroxides
Oxidizing liquids, nitrates, swimming pool chemicals, peroxides

• Class 6: Poisonous Materials and Infectious Substances
Arsenic, potassium cyanide, parathion, pesticides, tear gas, irritating materials, items containing etiologic agents, used sharps, used medical equipment

• Class 7: Radioactive Materials
Products with a radioactive warning label

• Class 8: Corrosives
Chlorine bleach, ammonia, batteries, drain cleaners, acids, mercury

• Class 9: Miscellaneous Hazardous Materials
Magnetized materials, dry ice, self-inflating life saving devices

Doesn't mention children anywhere! :right:

so, how are mail-ordered brides delivered?

Fed Ex-when it absolutely positively has to be there on time.

Sure it does:
• Class 1: Explosives
• Class 2: Gases
• Class 3: Flammable Liquids
• Class 4: Flammable Solids
• Class 6: Poisonous Materials and Infectious Substances
• Class 9: Miscellaneous Hazardous Materials

If you cant find ways to fit anklebiters into each of these categories, you haven't spent enough time around children.

This is what happens when a marginally literate frontiersperson writes out a prayer and asks for a "mail child".

Sure it does. Right there in Class 6, under Irritating Materials.

:lol:

Welcome Nil!

bzzzt! When you absolutely, positively have to have it overnight.

Oh come on 10 posts and no body has said ANY thing about deepfrieng this kid !!!

:eyebrow:

Nah, too much fat, not enough good meat. The carrier's the way to go. A little stringy maybe, but plenty of lean muscle.

:D Nonsense, UPS or DHL even Airborne. I won't buy from companies that ship Fedex, if I can help it.
75% (not a number I pulled out of my butt) of the time, they can't find my house. Even after I talked to the actual driver on the phone. My house ain't hard to find.
One package took less than two days from Seattle to ten miles from me and eight days from there to me. Grrrr :mad:



Oh, welcome to the Cellar nil orally.

It's nice to be welcomed. Thanks folks. I'll see what I can do to modify that sentiment.:D