Just knowing about FedEx and the shit they pull, if they did ship a kid you'd never hear about it.
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If FedEx or UPS shipped a kid, they'd end up killing it if they treated the child like any other package they handle.
Just slap a fragile sticker on it I'm sure that will do something.
Well… perhaps they should be looking at the H in DHL like that.
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.
Yeah, I actually think these types of thing are a healthy thing for society.
The fact some parents were like “I can’t afford a train ticket” and some postal workers just went with it is great.
i mean, some parents are currently like "i can only afford one plane ticket" and just have to hope the adult their kid gets sat by is safe. it kind of feels the same way.
A plane has at least a lot of people around. In postal service, one can assume the kid spends quite some time alone with the operator. You just have to trust that random person!
Going through the postal service might have been safer than other forms of travel because there would have been more explicit exchanges of custody. Like put a kid on a passenger train and they could just get off and get lost before getting on a connecting train and who knows what happened to them? They arrived on train A but never got on train B.
Whereas with mail, the kid becomes the operator's responsibility. If the kid is handed over to the operator to ride train A but then is nowhere to be found at the destination, then that operator is the prime suspect. Or the operator hands the kid off to the next operator in the journey and the kid is now their responsibility.
And even if you have a babysitter, passenger stations are going to be a lot more crowded than cargo stations, so keeping track of a kid will be a lot easier, plus the driver is the babysitter for the postal service, so they won't miss their train or take the wrong one by accident (unless they are routed incorrectly lol).
and weight is not a great way to price childcare.
I'd like to hear your solution then!
Look, I never claimed to be a genius. You can't just go asking people questions like that and expect them to know.
I just know that childcare for a bushel of babies shouldn't be the same as for an individual seven year old.
was just being a smart ass bud, calmate
(I was responding with tongue firmly in my cheek, and I laughed out loud because I actually can't think of why weight is a bad pricing model, beyond it obviously being not what you use. Hence "bushel of babies")
:)
Hearing this quirky description makes me think Picard Maneuver is shilling against mail-in voting, given the timing.
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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.
Reminds me of Futurama. "You're under arrest for child cruelty, child endangerment, depriving children of food, selling children AS food, and misrepresenting the weight of livestock!"
Fun fact: USPS still ships livestock
Less fun fact: USPS in recent years has been stacking things on the chicken boxes :(
Ah that probably sucks :/. I'm guessing it harms the chickens somehow?
That's where the air holes are :(
Oh... That's not where the air holes should be. Not the only air holes, at least. There are rules for what containers can get approved for mailing chickens.
🤔 Now that I think about it, I vaguely remember there being some specs for crush resistance too, so maybe stacking is normal practice?
I used to ship lots of things, but never animals, so my knowledge and memory of this is pretty fuzzy. Seems like some rules were broken to end up in that situation though... which still sucks
I think I got a farming while beige video about it a while ago, this seems like it likely could have been it.
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.
You can still mail order live chicks
Not only that, USPS is the only "major" carrier who will do so.
It's funny to put major in quotes. If you look at shipping volumes then USPS is really the only major carrier. Since they have to deliver everywhere they deliver something like 120 billion things a year, where the second is like...7 billion.
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Yeah they are quite hardy. Have ordered on 2 seperate occasions, all arrive healthy. When a chick is born they essentially consume the yolk which will allow them to go a couple days without needing food/water. Being a live shipment you usually pick it up at the post office, so it doesn't have to get trucked around all day. (Also meaning you can grab them as soon as they are supposed to be there and get them all settled in under a heat source and food/water quickly).
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now the GOP is trying to USPS to discredit mail in ballots.
Also to fuck up the upcoming Census so they can further steal more representation they shouldn't have.
Miss me with the pro-privatized corporate slop. Where my public service homies at?
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Tbf most of the other companies were not around back then (100 years ago) so maybe they would have also shipped kids (for profit)...
It was only domestic shipping.
The US also had a history of shipping people as cargo across the ocean for profit.
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With FedEx the child would be neither living or breathing when it arrived.
Ring camera video of driver yeeting child out the door of the truck and 20 feet to the porch
Literally watched an amazon driver do this the other day.
*I feel it's important to clarify I mean with a package, not a child
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Still would use over fedex
Nothing sent by DHL, UPS or Fedex is mail.
yeah they're parcel services, not mail services
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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.
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