Considering how fast-paced and digital our modern world is, I love when I get the opportunity to send and receive mail. Sadly, however, it's a practice that's going the way of the dodo.
Sure, emails and text messages are convenient — but nothing can beat the thrill of finding a hand-addressed envelope in one's mailbox.
Well, at least that was how I used to feel — until I discovered you can send way more than a simple postcard or letter in the mail! Now, ordinary mail seems like old hat.
When I first read that unique objects can be sent via USPS — such as a plastic beach shovel, an inflated beach ball, and plastic Easter eggs — I knew I had to give it a shot.
I couldn't believe the results! Never in a million years did I think this would work — but now that I know this, I plan to send lots of unusual mail to all my family and friends!
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When we heard that it's possible to send more than just envelopes in the mail — given the right amount of postage — we knew we had to give it a try! We started with a pair of flip-flops.
First, we wrote the LittleThings' address on a label. In order to test this out, we decided to send it to ourselves from a distant mailbox.
After firmly affixing the label, we added a few colorful decorations.
Then, we added postage. We decided that four stamps felt like enough.
After gluing and taping everything down, our first experiment was ready to go! But we weren't done yet...
We'd heard that plastic bottles could also make it through, so we decided to test that out as well.
We wrote a little letter to our editor, then folded it up.
We realized it would need to be small, so we rolled the letter up tightly.
We then dropped it into a clean, dry soda bottle.
After that, we decided to include a coloring book sheet as well.
But what good is a coloring book without some colored pencils?!
Once everything was snugly inside, we screwed on the lid.
We affixed a mailing label to the bottle.
We then stuck on the stamps.
Next, we found a mailbox and dropped off both pieces of mail. Nearly a week went by, and we had received nothing at our office; it looked like neither the flip-flop nor the bottle had made its way back...
But to our shock, we finally received the flip-flop! One day later, we received the bottle. They were a little banged up — and some stickers had fallen off — but they'd made it!
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