Idaho Matters

(Smithsonian Institution)Each year, millions of people around the world depend on the postal service to deliver our letters and packages to loved ones everywhere. As long as you’ve got the right amount of postage on your letter or package, the postal workers will see it to its final destination. As you’ll hear in this episode, a family living in Idaho during the early 20th century tested the limits of this reasoning, when they send a very special parcel through the Post.