Children could earlier legally be sent by parcel post in US
When the Parcel Post Service was launched in America in 1913, children were often sent by mail due to lack of proper guidelines. Under the service, children were often mailed with appropriate postage stamps on their outer clothing. One such reported incident stated, five-year-old May Pierstorff was mailed to her grandparents, travelling 117.5 kilometres, at a cost of 53 cents. 