Postage On Things Other Than Envelopes / Postcards

Found a couple images. Also, here is a neat little story about how someone recently went about mailing them.
http://havemorecake.blogspot.com/20...in-mail.html

1775mac beat me to it!! This nut was sent to my sister from Hawaii in 1990...

I know they still mail bees to apiarists (beekeepers).
That was one of the concerns during our mail lockout this past year. It came right at the start of bee season, and many apiarists were awaiting their new shipments for the year.

Indeed. The USPS will still ship bees and chickens. I haven't kept either for a couple years but queen bees were shipped using a USPS small flat rate priority box with a nice sticker that says "Live Bees" on the outside. I can't recall what service the chickens we ordered were shipped using but they come in a regular cardboard box with air holes. In both cases we received phone calls from the post office at about 4:30 am to come to the loading dock and pick up our livestock.

You can also buy ladybugs and other beneficial insects...

Maybe I should have my dealers start putting "Live Bees" on the outside to keep the postal employees from stealing my registered shipments...

Well, a box is other than a postcard or envelope. I don't understand the address on this piece as it just gives the name and "City". Perhaps that means local delivery or something? I don't know. Storage of pieces like this is somewhat problematic as they aren't flat.

Here we go. I knew I had a picture of the bee shipment somewhere. If you look closely in the plastic cages you can see that each has a queen and several attendants.

I wonder how noisy that bee shipment was...

Yes, that's local. You used to be able to put 'City' if the letter or parcel was post to an address within the same city or town.

Obviously that city was soooo small, you didn't even need the address.

May be time to update the scientific research on the topic:
http://improbable.com/airchives/pap...tal-6-4.html

Theater ticket



Also, while researching the Pneumatic Tube mail system in the States, they once sent a Cat through the tube.

Stallzer - is that a postage or revenue stamp? Also, A CAT???

It's from Great Britain where Postal could be used for Revenue and Vise versa. I don't know if this particular Stamp could have been used for Postage as I'm not that well informed on Great Britain postal history.

Here is a story about the cat in the Pneumatic Mail tube.

http://www.automatlunch.com/2010/10...il-tube.html

Stallzer that's a very funny article. I liked the way the fact that a cat was used to test the system in the US then tempered by the fact it was legal in England to send not only animals but children through the mail. Priceless.