In 1879, the postal authorities in Liège, Belgium recruited 37 new mail carriers to transport cards and letters to the surrounding villages. The carriers were "plucky" house cats, who were released with a waterproof bag of mail tied to each one. Each feline was then supposed to run to the appropriate village and exchange its cargo for a saucer of milk.
Amazingly enough, this innovative project did not prove to be an unqualified success.
The American government would of course not blunder into trying anything this foolish. It would instead first award some researcher a $1.5 million grant to conduct a feasibility study.
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