Miscellaneous
In this weeks episode, Mike and Dylan take a look at the history of mail delivery in the USA. The focus is on all the strange, crazy and dangerous ways the mail used to be delivered. It's not that crazy to think a man on horseback delivered mail in the colonial days. But did you know George Washington had personally requested a letter be delivered by a hot air balloon? The pony express is insane in its own right, but we get to hear about one of the riders. After that, its time to fly again! This time, we are flying in old war planes that have nothing. No communications, no navigation, just dead reckoning and a prayer. Finally, we wrap it up with missile mail! USPS and the Navy decided to team up to become a super power, and use fucking missiles to deliver your mail! All that and more!Sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service#Historyhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mail-delivery-rocket-never-took-180963557/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_mailhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSM-N-8_Regulushttps://www.wired.com/2011/06/0608submarine-fires-mail-missile/https://about.usps.com/publications/pub100/pub100_026.htmhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_Departmenthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Blanchardhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pony_Expresshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Blanchard