Sending children though the post is not unheard of. I found this out as I began researching the first story in this series. Children have been sent, postage paid, back and forth to relatives or school; the practice has been documented many times. They were sent as freight in charge of a train’s engineer, a purser, postman, or similar adult. This inherent trust in the systems of the day, postal and rail, along with a disregard for children’s safety, would be deemed criminal in the modern world. Yet in the 19 -century US, paying for little
