The Strangely Successful History of People Mailing Themselves in Boxes

The Strangely Successful History of People Mailing Themselves in Boxes

The communication from FedEx's media relations team was brief. "Dan," a FedEx employee identified over email only as "Media Relations" wrote, "The shipment of humans is prohibited in our network as a matter of policy." But behind that banal corporate phrasing lies a rich history, a subset of the stowaway phenomenon-the story of people attempting to mail themselves in boxes.

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