Hey, Answer Girl -

If you wanted to - and I mean really, really wanted to - could you mail yourself?

- Posing Postal Puzzles in Powell

I have to admit - this is one of my favorite questions ever, if not only for its absurdity.

But if you ponder the logistics of mailing oneself, it would be rather difficult, wouldn't it?

First, you'd have to go online and print the correct amount of postage for the box that will contain you. Then, you'd have to find a box big enough to fit yourself in, put the postage on it, go out to your mailbox, get inside the box, and seal it. All by yourself.

If you expected to get to your destination alive, the box would have to be heavily padded, but also have enough holes so you could breathe. Or, you'd have to be really, really lucky.

As for the legality of mailing oneself, you'd have to speak with the post office. Mailing humans and other live animals requires special postage and special notice to the post office. Most likely, they'd request that you not mail yourself, presumably for safety reasons.

All that logic aside: yes, you probably could mail yourself. And I know this only because it's been done.

In 2003, shipping clerk Charles McKinley shipped himself as cargo from New York to his parents' home in Texas. And, miraculously, he made it there alive and undetected. That is, until he crawled out of the box on his parents' front porch, right in front of the mailman, who called the police.

And a German drug dealer, Hans Lang, escaped prison by packing himself in a FedEx box and riding out of prison on the mail truck. His final destination - and whether he made it there alive - is unknown. Convicted murderer Richard Lee McNair also mailed himself out of prison in a pile of mail bags in 2006.

Hey, Answer Girl -

My home is in a residential school zone, which is posted at 20 mph. Speeders pass through at times over 50 mph and speeders with radio boom boxes and loud mufflers drive by all hours of the day. My wife and I are seniors and would appreciate more quiet. Who do I go to in town to get some support to put a stop to the noise and speeders?

- Andy in Lander

The best people to get behind you when it comes to enforcing laws and ordinances (like speeders, public nuisances and noise problems) are your city council members. The Lander City Council holds regular meetings at Lander City Hall, 240 Lincoln Street, on the second and fourth Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. Work sessions are held the first, third and fifth Tuesdays of every month at 7 p.m.

Ward 1 council members are John Boulette and Dan Hahn, Ward 2 includes council president Buddy Spriggs and Ken Stroh, and Ward 3 members are Nancy Webber and Linda Barton. To find out which ward you're in, call the city of Lander at (307) 332-2870. The council members and their phone numbers are available on the city of Lander's Web site, www.landerwyoming.org/council.

You can bring any concerns you have to their attention, and they'll likely try to help you solve city-related problems.

Contact reporter Megan Lee at (307) 266-0616 or megan.lee@trib.com.

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