It is truly amazing how much is never realized with the history of our mail delivery. Not only has our U.S. Post Office delivered children as parcels; but, there is a history of our mail being delivered by Rockets!
One of the first successful deliveries of mail by a rocket in the United States was made on 23 February 1936, when two rocket airplanes that were launched from the New York side of the frozen Greenwood Lake landed on the New Jersey side, less than 100 yards away.
More attempts were tested in the mid 1950s using amateur rockets carrying mail interstate from California into Arizona.
In 1959, the U.S. Navy submarine USS Barbero had an actual branch office set up on their submarine for mail delivery using “Missile Mail”. They used a Regulus cruise missile by replacing the nuclear warhead with two Post Office mail containers and launched the missile to Florida.
This is a mail container that was used by the USS Barbero on display at the United States Submarine Force Museum in Groton, Connecticut.
