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The Coconut Is a Special Delivery Indeed, Good for Eating, Drinking and . . . Communicating?
Coconut Geography
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· Coconuts are native only to the South Pacific, but they were spread around the globe by explorers hundreds of years ago.
· A coconut can survive months of floating in the ocean. When it washes up on a beach, it can germinate into a tree!
· In the United States, you can write an address on the outside of a coconut, slap on the correct postage and drop the whole thing in the mail. Amazing! "Yes, coconuts are mailable as long as they are presented in a dry condition and not oozing fruit juice," said Dave Partenheimer, a spokesman for the U.S. Postal Service. He couldn't say how many are mailed each year, but too many wouldn't be good. "They don't work that well with the equipment," he said.
-- Margaret Webb Pressler
