Missile Mail

[Dave Monroe]

Missile Mail

http://www.usps.com/postalhistory/_pdf/MissileMail.pdf

Mail by missile

http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/lectures/Mail_by_Missile_09-06-11.html

Rocket mail

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_mail

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Barbero_%28SS-317%29#Missile_Mail

MAIL VIA ROCKET

A missile expert predicts rocket mail by 1965. Here are MI’s ideas on
how the system could function.

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/04/15/mail-via-rocket/?Qwd=./MechanixIllustrated/1-1957/mail_rocket&Qif=mail_rocket_1.jpg&Qiv=thumbs&Qis=XL#qdig

Regulus Missile Mail Container

http://postalmuseumblog.si.edu/2009/09/regulus-missile-mail-container.html

On This Day: US Postal Service Attempts “Missile Mail” for First and Last Time
June 08, 2010 09:00 AM

http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/May-June-08/On-this-Day--U-S--Postal-Service-Attempts--Missile-Mail--for-First-and-Last-Time.html

Missile Mail 8 June 1959

http://www.navalhistory.org/2010/06/12/saturday-ship-cover-missile-mail-8-june-1959/

Missilemail.jpg‎ (384 × 251 pixels, file size: 15 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Missilemail.jpg

"... in order ... that business communications be accelerated and
multiplied at least within the boundaries of the civilized world, we
propose a projectile or cannonball express: an institution that, with
suitably situated artillery stations placed within firing range of
each other, would discharge, from mortars or howitzers, hollow shells,
which have been stuffed full not of powder, but letters and packages,
and which could very easily be observed in flight, and wherever they
might fall, short of some morass, be retrieved ..."

--Heinrich von Kleist, "Useful Inventions: Project for a Cannonball
Postal System" (1810)

"This is the new, and still most secret German bomb.
   "'Incoming Mail.'" (GR, Pt. I, p. 6)

"... and now Pirate knows where this morning's rocket landed, and why
there was no explosion.  Incoming mail, indeed."  (GR, Pt. I, p. 11)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0106&msg=56509
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0701&msg=114169
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0910&msg=143124