That Time the U.S. Postal Service Tried Missile Mail
Today for the equivalent price of a decent cup of coffee you can get the United States Postal Service to pick up and deliver a letter to anywhere in the continental United States in just a day or two. But it hasn't always been that way and there’s a reason they call it "snail mail". To get around the problem, for a brief time in the 1950s the USPS dared to dream big- like rocket ship big... Yes, on June 8, 1959, the then named U.S. Post Office Department, in conjunction with the US Navy, launched a rocket laden with what they officially dubbed MISSILE MAIL!
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if nothing else i sounds way cooler to say "I'll send it via missile mail."
Well actually the bonus fact was super cool! Can you do more reviews of advertisements you discover when researching ideas? Thanks!
My big brother was a rocket scientist for the Navy. I was a postmaster with the USPS. We certainly missed our callings.
@pdeniro57
2 жыл бұрын
I am confuse. You want to send chickens across the river to get screwed by a duck. A single duck. SICK!!!
*Simon and Hiskey* taught us that *DUCKS ARE HORRIBLE CREATURES!!!*
@pdeniro57
2 жыл бұрын
Yes they did. I been kicking them since this video. My leg hurt after walking around my farm. If I new what my ducks were doing to my chicken I would have scrambled them at birth. They have to now what I think about the situation because I have never seen them run afowl. They are just snake in the chicken coop.
How wild would it be to go back with our phones and try to explain them
"Like rocket ship big!" (proceeds to show image of a war ship)
@MonkeyJedi99
5 жыл бұрын
… that fired missiles in the first Gulf War.
Absolutely love the in depth research yall do. Keep up the great work. Love all yall's channels and podcast
@pdeniro57
2 жыл бұрын
Bs with your comment. They short handed the whole chickens rocketing over the river. Like why? Also did you see the duck screw the chicken?!?!?! Maybe you can help me with that one?
I really think you should ramp up the production of Highlight History videos
@pdeniro57
2 жыл бұрын
So why can question life more!?!?!? I am appalled at this. Why did the duck screw the chicken in this video. 🤯
I’m a simple man. I see a channel with your face on it, I subscribe.
This is a good channel idea
Funny, I was pruning channels I'm subscribed to this morning and noticed this one still didn't have videos posted. Decided to stay subscribed and now here we are with videos.
@ZnakerFIN
5 жыл бұрын
@Michael Stevenson They're not stolen since this channel is from the same people as the TIFO channel. Can't really steal from yourself.
@kyleeames8229
5 жыл бұрын
I’m an early subscriber as well. He told his viewers about his new channel on Today I Found Out before he began uploading videos here.
Can't wait for more of these.
@pdeniro57
2 жыл бұрын
More ducks screwing chickens. I only have more questions from this video...
This looks like it was filmed on a ring doorbell
Read title and description to my man, as expected received a total WTF look from him. Then proceeded to watch.
Just need to add turkey for a ‘turducken’ lmao
@pdeniro57
2 жыл бұрын
Finally someone who seen the duck. You are right. A turkey would have been a good addition to the orgy. SICK!?!?! Lol
This is what happened to this day in history, nice
Ok, is it only I having a 'Dad Joke' moment or did anyone else (for a brief moment) mentally sing the words "Rocket Mail, Rocket Mail!", Instead of Rocket Man??? (Additionally mind-sung, "...sending packages to, your, place..."), Ok, sorry I'll stop now...damn you insomnia...🙄
Really could use that rocket mail down under because these three week delivery times are getting real old. Amazon one day delivery? HAH! We're fucking lucky if Amazon will ship it here _at all_
Rocketmail is a branch of Yahoomail now :D
10:00 - Bonus fact
What kind of LAV mic do you use if you don't mind me asking? My husband is a journalist and I'm trying to get him a setup remote that he can use at home. I really like the way your audio on most of your videos comes across, so I'm interested in your setup.
Coooool
@WolfieDawn
5 жыл бұрын
OMG THE DUCK REFRENCE
My daughter’s father in law receives his baby chick in the US postal.
Can you please explain how a cruise missile "lands safely"??? Do they even have any device to land ON or WITH? Don't they just crash but not explode and that counts?
ATTNSMN the TinCan Island story made no mention in your telling of rockets,yet you state rocket's were used and had some luck then gave the TinCan Island story as the example then you state they dropped it overboard,no mention of the use of rockets in the mail delivery system, very confusing
Ah, another Simon Whistler channel. Along with Today I Found Out, Biographics, Top Tenz, and the Brain Food podcast, we now have this colorful channel that mixes historical facts with animations of ducks having sex with... chickens. Gotta admit I didn't see that one coming. I think this is fantastic, but I'm not sure I see that much of a difference between this and TIFO. It even has the bonus facts! Did this merit the creation of another new channel? Couldn't you have achieved the same thing by simply releasing these videos on the TIFO channel?
@HighlightHistory
5 жыл бұрын
One) I have another channel, called Visual politik Kane just In case you don’t have enough of me already ;-). Two)The reason we chose to spin this off to a new channel, is twofold. One it does have a slightly different format, as we are doing a specific day from history, on the day that the video goes out. At least that’s what we intend to do, sometimes they get delayed ;-). Secondly, the way the algorithm on KZread works right now, seems to be that if you put out more than one video per day on a channel, it doesn’t work so well. Obviously there are exceptions, but we’ve tested it on ours and found that to be the case.
Odd flex, but ok
I have so many questions about the duck. Why the hell did you do that. It 3 a.m. right now and definitely can't go to sleep. Like why did the chickens even cross the river. To make duckens apparently. Those badys probably taste good. Do you see the mf tangents you have created. With great power comes great responsibility and wtf we're you thinking with this one. Like shit my whole life is upturned now.
Aha the OGHH gay ducks!
@pdeniro57
2 жыл бұрын
I would think if we seen the rest of the seen it would have been a ménage à trois and if you added a turkey of any sex it would had been an orgy. Remember, it only take one girl in a group off men to make it an orgy or a ménage à trois and not gay. Get more converts to the party.
what i dont get is, i dont remember subscribing to this channel :-|
Is this channel really necessary? It seems so similar to "Today I Found Out."
If you want any mail in two days,you better be on Amazon. Otherwise, 3 or 4 days, that’s why stamps went up, so the PO can have have warehouses to store it. Just kidding., kinda.