The Rest of History

The Man Who Mailed Himself a Town

Episode Summary

In 1916, a Utah banker legally purchased a town and had it delivered by the U.S. Postal Service — 80,000 bricks, shipped parcel post, one regulated package at a time. It was technically legal, briefly national news, and quietly broke the entire American mail system. The story of how one small-town ambition rewrote federal shipping law overnight.