 One of the more interesting items that was sent through the mail was an entire bank, brick by brick. So in Vernal, Utah, the bank of Vernal, Utah was wanting to build a new bank. The closest place they could get bricks for the bank was about 127 miles away in Salt Lake City. Now, it would have cost about four times the amount to have those bricks transported via railroad and then horse and carriage to the site, this construction site. They needed 40 tons of bricks, so they sent them in 50-pound packets.