That's A Shame

According to this Wikipedia entry, on this day in 1920, the United States Postal Service ruled that children may not be mailed via parcel post.

This is such early 20th Century thinking. And I suppose with such slow, uncomfortable and unsafe transportation available at the time, especially for non-local movement, it made a certain amount of sense. But surely with all our modern transportation technology it is time to re-examine such a prohibition. Just think of how much easier life would be if one could, for example, simply mail the kids to the grandparents. (And think of the enormous disciplinary benefit of being able to threaten to do so.)

I call on all you loyal Llama readers to contact the U.S.P.S. today to demand that this policy be reviewed and amended.