Ahhh ... the "Good" Old Days before Fed-Ex/UPS, flat rate boxes, and computer sorting and tracking, when the postal was the only way to send packages ...
I wonder how many in that pile are from Sears, S.& H. Green Stamps, Monkey Wards, J.C. PENNY, and the "send in a nickel (or dime)" back of the comic book specials folks for x-ray glasses, decoder rings, and such.
(picture is also pre-1968, when it was still legal to buy firearms through the mail from a catalog. How many do you think have a new pistol, revolver, or other cartridge gun in them?)
In 1958 or 1959 my paternal gramps sent a whole dollar Anna half in for a "guaranteed to kill any bug" thing he saw advertised in a magazine or something.
He received two 4 inch pieces of pine 2x4.
The instructions said something to the effect of "place the bug on one block and rap smartly with the other."
I don't know if there was a warning to be careful to avoid getting stung putting stinging bugs on the first block, and to let go of the bug before rapping it smartly, so you didn't rap your fingers instead of the bug...
Probably not. "Common Sense" was still common then. ... it wasn't even necessary (and probably un-thought of) to put "WARNING HOT COFFEE"/"WARNING COFFEE MAY BE HOT" warning labels on a take-out cup of coffee back then ....
AZbuckNM
It isn't "you earned it you get to spend it" anymore?
Bummer.
Come to think of it, that was going out of style when I was wedded from 1985-1988.
