For a modest price (~$20), you can get a flight cover flown on the space shuttle.<p>This is is an envelope with a cancellations for "Launched" and "Returned to Earth" including Kennedy Space Center and Edwards.<p>Search for "STS-8 flight cover" on ebay.
Watch "Jour de fête", by Jacques Tati, 1949. There's a stunt film-in-the-film about this kind of super efficient mail delivery methods.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jour_de_f%C3%AAte" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jour_de_f%C3%AAte</a>
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This is there just to remind us how boring our generation is. We used to actually tried to convince people to send mail by shooting it in rockets, send a man to the moon in a glorified can and fly around the world in zeppelins. Compared to that, a slightly bigger portable television with 3 cameras instead of 1 is just ... boring.
All this really needs is a better guidance system. I'm surprised there isn't a startup for using artillery launched drones to deliver packages yet. Drop a package anywhere within a 20 mile radius of the warehouse within 2 minutes.
The reverse of shipping a rocket by mail e.g. "The KGB Shipped a Sidewinder Missile by Mail to Moscow. It cost $79.25." [1] IIRC this was featured in the series The Americans [2] as well.<p>[1] <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/fact-the-kgb-shipped-sidewinder-missile-by-mail-moscow-21673" rel="nofollow">https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/fact-the-kgb-ship...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Americans" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Americans</a>
><i>The collection of philatelic material ("stamps") used for (and depicting) rocket mail is part of a specialist branch of aerophilately known as astrophilately.</i><p>Wikipedia sub-categorizations are consistently amazing. Not sure if it's a positive "amazing" or not, but it does amaze.
Come on, Elon! Give us a mail delivery service where little rockets land vertically, spit out our mail, and then take off again to go back where they came from.