You can be driving through what appears to be the middle of nowhere when you see it. With no explanation as to its presence in that place, you will find a massive […]
Why Do Thousands of Mysterious Arrows Cover the USA?
An Extreme Example of Banking By Mail
What do you do when a community needs a bank, but it is too far away from the beaten path to ship the supplies there? That’s exactly the problem faced by the […]
The Price of Freedom Equals the Cost of Postage
If $86 seems like a lot to pay for postage — especially in 1849 — you might think differently if you realized that was how much it cost to buy one man […]
The Good Fortune and Bad Luck of the Most Expensive Item Ever Mailed
The most valuable item known to have been shipped by U.S. mail was the Hope Diamond. It was shipped from a New York City jewelry store on November 8, 1958, and sent […]
Sweets to the Sweet; Coconuts to You
To mail a coconut within the United States, it is not necessary to do anything other than affix an address and correct postage. The US Postal Service views coconuts as self-contained container, […]
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