A Ferret In The Mail

Jorge Valencia: Stamps the ferret was shipped from a Lynchburg post office in a cardboard box stuffed with food, toy cars and a doll. The destination was a town near San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Stamps may have made it there — had he stopped wiggling.

A postal inspector, David McKinney, got the call about it at his Roanoke office on the afternoon of Monday, April 5, hours after Stamps and the package had been deposited and $63.55 was paid for overnight delivery.

"The box was dropped off at 2 p.m., and it started moving about 5 p.m.," McKinney said. "Periodically, it would just vibrate. The postal workers put their hand on the box and it kind of freaked them out."