June 13 Today In History
The year was 1920
The U.S. Postal Service said
You can’t send children parcel post
That’s how their new rule read
Well that got me to thinking
What happened pre that date.
Did they cover kids with stamps,
Then by the curb they’d wait?
Did they pack them into boxes,
Maybe two or three per crate?
Did they even have a limit
On the size and shape and weight?
And I can see grand parents
Just waiting by their gate
Concerned about their grand kids
And why the mail was late
Were they ever lost in transit
If so, what was their fate
And what about the parents
Who thought their kids were freight
Did the postman ring their doorbell
And try to set them straight
Or did he just pick up the kids
And never hesitate
Why did the Postal Service
Have to write this rule?
My guess is people mailed kids
And I bet more than one fool
Mdailey 6/13/11
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