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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 2/19/25: Don't Let Jeff Bezos See This [1]
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Date: 2025-02-19
Nowadays you can get anything delivered, but there were fewer constraints in the past.
On February 19, 1914, then five-year-old Charlotte May Pierstorff was mailed from Grangeville, Idaho to Lewiston, Idaho to visit her grandmother C. G. Vennigerholz, as this was cheaper than buying a train ticket. Charlotte, who weighed 48.5 pounds (22.0 kg) at the time, rode in the mail car with a 32ยข stamp on her coat (equivalent to $10 in 2023).[6]
Leonard Mochel, May's mother's cousin and railway postal clerk, accompanied her during the trip and delivered her to her grandmother's house.[7]
This event indirectly caused the United States Post Office to bar all humans and live animals from mail delivery (with few exceptions, bees and day-old poultry amongst them).[8][9]
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