Mail is weird. You lick a little square with something like Elvis’ head on it, stick it to a folded paper rectangle, put it into a big blue box … and the next thing you know, it’s on the other side of the country. Or the planet. And if that’s not strange enough, you can also send all kinds of crazy things.
KidNews tried our luck – and the Postal Service’s patience -with a bunch of wacky ways of mailing stuff. Some of it worked, some of it didn’t. We mailed it to KidNews and a suburban location from various mail boxes in the suburbs.
What made it:
– A coconut with stamps attached with Super Glue and rubber cement.
– A Ziploc bag full of green slime and fake spiders.
– A softball, also with stamps secured with rubber cement.
– An envelope with the address written really, really small, like this: KidNews is cool.
– A piece of paper the same size of an envelope.
– An envelope with the address written backward (you have to read it with a mirror).
What didn’t:
– A piece of paper almost as big at this page that said, “Do Not Fold!” on it.
– A stamp, not stuck to anything but with the address written on the back.
– An envelope with no stamp, but with the real address switched with the return address. (We were hoping we could trick them into stamping it “Return to Sender” and sending it to us. It worked before, though, when somebody sent us a Backtalk letter like that.)
– A page torn from the phone book, with a stamp on it and the address highlighted.
