June 8, 1959: They?ll Never Complain About Slow Postal Service Again

1959: ?Rocket mail? becomes ?missile mail? when 3,000 pieces of mail are delivered by a cruise missile fired from a U.S. Navy submarine.
Experiments in delivering mail by rocket had met with mixed success since the first rocket mail was sent between two Austrian villages in 1931. The first successful delivery by this method in the [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2011/06/0608submarine-fires-mail-missile/

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