U.S Postal Sevice to Close This Fall ?????

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Who told you that?

I bet it was those stinking Commie Liberals again!!!


Anyway, here's a random tidbit of info for you.

In 1959 the USS Barbero launched a missile with 3000 letters in it from off the coast of Florida to NAAS Mayport, Florida. It was the beginning of what would be a breakthrough in the delivery of mail, it was estimated at the time that "Before man reaches the moon, mail will be delivered within hours from New York to California, to Britain, to India or Australia by guided missiles. We stand on the threshold of rocket mail."

The reason why mail delivered by SLCM never went beyond the test phase: