Students really have a fun time reading Flat Stanley and participating in the extension activities. The book asks the reader to suspend reality and go along for the ride. The activities that can be branched off this book across the curriculum are numerous. It includes a reading informational article detailing the longer, complete version of this interesting factoid of our postal history as well as a math and writing follow up activity where the student will work to determine the cost to deliver themselves to a travel destination via mail, car, train, or plane! Crazy, fun, and educational all in one!įlat Stanley by Jeff Brown, is a fun book that is wonderful to use in the classroom. It is included with the full Flat Stanley Novel Unit, or available alone. Learn more about this crazy, but true story in this addition to my Flat Stanley novel unit, “ Could you Be a Real-Life Flat Stanley?”. “Baby Boy by Parcel Post.” 26 January 1913 The postage was fifteen cents and the parcel was insured for $50. Louis Beagle, who lives about a mile distant. Lytle delivered the boy safely at the address on the card attached, that of the boy’s grandmother, Mrs. The boy was well wrapped and ready for “mailing” when the carrier received him to-day. The baby, a boy weighing 10-3/4 pounds, just within the 11-pound weight limit, is the child of Mr. 5, is the first man to accept and deliver under parcel post conditions a live baby. This was great for businesses and farmers but a few people took advantage of it to ship their children! On January 26, 1913, the New York Times reported that a mail carrier in Batavia, Ohio, delivered a baby “mailed” by his parents to his grandmother who lived about a mile away: Before this time all you could send was a normal letter. Post Office introduced a Parcel Post service for Americans to send larger packages through the Post Office. This idea seems hilarious and crazy, and a wild stretch of the author’s imagination, but did you know that back in 1913-1914 it was legal to send children through the mail? There are some cases of “real-life Flat Stanley’s” in the United States Postal history. In the book Flat Stanley, Stanley was mailed to California instead of going by train or plane in order to save money.
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