It used to be crazier than that. Some of the stuff that could be sent can't anymore.
And they're big on boxes now.
The craziest I ever heard was a western town served by a very bad road. So bad that shipments of heavy stuff cost a fortune by wagon. So when someone opened a bank they had the bricks they used to build it mailed. Yes, not just a few, an entire building.
Steve B
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