73. Weird Things To Mail & Weird Things You’ve Purchased
This week let’s test the post office. The Internet gave me a list of 10 weird things you can mail without a box so let’s see if those things can actually be mailed. Connect on the @TodayByTheWay Instagram to perhaps be a part of the experiment. Also, this week something weird that I forgot I ordered showed up. What’s something you’ve ordered and had forgotten about until it arrived?
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Listicle: 13 Weird Things You Probably Didn’t Know You Can Mail (via The Krazy Coupon Lady)
Read: How the US Postal Service Works (via How Stuff Works)
Further reading: The History and Experience of African Americans in America’s Postal Service (via The Smithsonian),
Lynching of Frazier B. Baker and Julia Baker (via Wikipedia), Minnie M. Cox (via Wikipedia)
Source: A Brief History of Children Sent Through the Mail (via The Smithsonian)
Mentioned: Children’s book- Mailing May (via Amazon)
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Things I’ve ordered and forgot about until they’ve arrived: gold pants from Anthropologie, brown sugar bear, white bolo tie (similar)
#TBTWChallenge: Show us your closet audits! Bonus: show us something you’ve purchased in a moment of weakness!
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