…while the odd practice of sometimes slipping kids into the mail might be seen as incompetence or negligence on the part of the mail carriers, Lynch sees it more as an example of just how much rural communities relied on and trusted local postal workers.
“Mail carriers were trusted servants, and that goes to prove it,” Lynch says. “There are stories of rural carriers delivering babies and taking [care of the] sick. Even now, they’ll save lives because they’re sometimes the only persons that visit a remote household every day.”
Perhaps they should have scaled up (pun not intended) into train travel services for children. Would be far better than the options kids in America have today to travel safely over land on their own: NONE.
Children age 12 and under may not travel unaccompanied…
The simple answer is that there’s no minimum age to travel on a train alone.
Does your child aged 4 to 14 have to travel alone on the train? Take advantage of the Junior & Cie escort service…
German FlixTrain (operating in 42 countries)
Children between 6 and 14 years can travel alone with a declaration of consent from their parent or guardian (to be given during booking).
America pointlessly over regulates, while the Europeans innovate.