In the US mail you can send not only letters. Plants, insects, some animals, soccer balls, water skiing... this is not a complete list of things you can put in the parcel. But how to enclose a real BANK?
The Bank was able to send using the mail, a young businessman by the name of Coltharp. Coltharp going to build the building, on the ground floor which was supposed to be a Bank. The construction site for the future of the Bank was located 190 kilometers from the nearest brick factory. To carry 80,000 bricks, required substantial cash investments.
Wanting to save money, Caltrop decided to send the bricks in postal parcels. The businessman was packing bricks in boxes weighing 23 kgs — no longer allowed mail rules. At one time he sent forty of these boxes — i.e. about a ton of bricks.
Postage do not go in a straight line, they pass a complex way, designed to be optimal for fast delivery. Therefore, each batch of bricks was held is 190 miles more than 640. And still postage was cheaper than conventional transportation.
Postal workers, of course, was not very happy about the fact that they had to carry a ton of bricks. Caltrap still managed to send all of its 80,000 bricks, but after this incident, the mail changed the rules. Now to send more than 90 kilograms of cargo a day was forbidden. Explaining the introduction of the new rules, the U.S. postal service wrote that "... mail, the United States is not intended for delivery of buildings!".
Built Coltron Bank still exists — if you want to visit, it is located in Utah, city of Vernal. The locals called it "mail order Bank".