Weatherday: Don't mail the babies

Early light rain will clear. It will remain cloudy until lunchtime, then there should be sunny spells through the afternoon.

Temperatures reaching 19deg in light to moderate breezes.

On this day in 1920, the US Postal Service had to issue a decree that no children could be sent by parcel post, after several instances of parents doing that because it was the cheapest way for their children to travel.

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