Wooden shipping crates have seen a transformation of purpose and function through time. Since the formation of the US postal service, the shipment of crates’ sometimes odd and many times improper contents has helped shape the regulations for their future. Historical evidence has shown that the US postal service has seen it all, and most certainly gives a resounding word of thanks for the evolution of a shipping crate’s regulations. Certainly, the modern world has evolved sufficiently not to attempt shipping similar items that its predecessors managed to mail out.
One of the most bizarre shipments via a wooden crate in 1849 was an escaped human slave named Henry Brown. His plan of escape to freedom in Philadelphia was a success nearly 30 hours after his departure from the post office to his destination. Dead animals and diseases found their way via crates to destinations of taxidermists and the national health board in 1895. A pet chameleon was shipped in 1954 to a warmer climate in Orlando Florida. The most expensive shipment in history was a Smithsonian diamond worth $1 million dollars in 1958 with a modest shipping cost of the time of a mere $145 dollars. Considering the constructs of the crates over 100 years ago, it is a wonder that the contents ever made it out alive back then or unscathed for that matter.
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The wooden shipment crates of today have withstood the test of time as being a safe resource for the transport of a multitude of items. Shipping guidelines have been revamped for the safety of its contents of not only giant parcels but even warm-blooded cargo as well. A pallet in San Antonio makes shipping your item more viable and sturdy than the alternatives available a century ago. In the modern world, it would behoove the prudent shipper to double check that list of unacceptable, warm-blooded cargo items before attempting to mail them and doing time behind bars.
