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It was convenient while it lasted…
From the archives of the National Postal Museum…
After parcel post service was introduced in 1913, at least two children were sent by the service. With stamps attached to their clothing, the children rode with railway and city carriers to their destination. The Postmaster General quickly issued a regulation forbidding the sending of children in the mail after hearing of those examples.
[TotH to Neatorama]
As we compare the price of an airplane seat to the fee for an extra checked bag, we might recall that it was on this date in 1935 that the world’s first parking meter (Park-O-Meter No. 1, AKA “the Black Maria”) was installed on the southeast corner of what was then First Street and Robinson Avenue in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The design, by Holger George Thuesen and Gerald A. Hale, was done for Carl Magee, who patented and installed the device.
Magee, a journalist who’d earlier helped expose the Teapot Dome Scandal, and whose day job in 1935 was editor of the Oklahoma City News, is perhaps best remembered as coiner (more accurately adaptor, from Dante) of publisher E.W. Scripps Company’s motto: “Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way.”
Magee and the Meter (source)
No, literally…
Look at that giant amoeba.
From The Monkeys You Ordered, “literal New Yorker captions.”
It's 7:30
I’m dressed like a cowboy!
Many more at The Monkeys You Ordered.
As we sharpen our specificity, we might recall that it was on this date in 1943 that Frank C. Walker, FDR’s Postmaster General, introduced the Postal Code system: the Zone Code– the two digit signifier included in urban addresses until the introduction of zip codes, e.g.:
Ms. Margaret Mitchell
1001 Peachtree Avenue
Atlanta 13, Georgia
With the introduction of the Zip Code, the Zone Code became the last two digits of the five-digit locator.
Walker watching the President mail a letter with a Zone address (source: Smithsonian)
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