'Missile Mail' as it has been named, has existed since about 1931 where it was first tested in an Austrian village. The idea is that the sender launches a missile with mail stored in some sort of compartment on the missile, and the mail is delivered in a timely manner.
Although this mail delivery system has had mixed results, in 1959, the USPS launched a would-be nuclear missile (they replaced the warhead with a compartment stored with faux mail) from a submarine. It only took 22 minutes for the mail to travel from New Jersey to Florida! The mail was quickly recovered and sorted at the nearest postal office as per usual.
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