I often wonder if I took a first day cover and sold it on
ebay shipping it as a letter since the back is usually blank inserting return address and address with stamp if it would ruffle any feathers with the usps or the buyer what could they say but no, refund or wow cool.
I always remember the coconut john f kenedy mailed to get rescued.-
Navy Lt. John F. Kennedy and his boat crew were run down by a Japanese warship in World War II. It happened near the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific. Stuck on an island surrounded by Japanese, Kennedy was found by friendly island natives. He picked up a coconut shell and carved into it: "NAURO ISL … COMMANDER … NATIVE KNOWS POS'IT … HE CAN PILOT … 11 ALIVE … NEED SMALL BOAT … KENNEDY"
Kennedy gave the note to the natives, who delivered it to the Allies. The next day the future president and his crew were rescued. President Kennedy had the shell preserved and kept it on his desk in the White House. You can see it at his presidential library and museum in Boston.
but here is a doozy in the day a girl sent through the mail-
One of the oddest parcel post packages ever sent was "mailed" from Grangeville to Lewiston, Idaho on February 19, 1914. The 48 1/2 pound package was just short of the 50 pound limit. The name of the package was May Pierstorff, three months short of six years old.
May's parents decided to send their daughter for a visit with her grandparents, but were reluctant to pay the train fare. Noticing that there were no provisions in the parcel post regulations specifically concerning sending a person through the mails, they decided to "mail" their daughter. The postage, 53-cents in parcel post stamps, was attached to May's coat. This little girl traveled the entire distance to Lewiston in the train's mail compartment and was delivered to her grandmother's home by the mail clerk on duty, Leonard Mochel.
Posted 05/30/2014 1:54 pm
