According to an AP story, workers at a Milwaukee postal station recently found a four-foot alligator chomping its way out of a box. "Employees were sorting mail Friday when they noticed the alligator chewing its way out of an Express Mail box, said JoAnne Blackburn, a Postal Service spokeswoman," according to the story posted at Yahoo News. Is it illegal to ship four-foot alligators via the U.S. Postal Service? You bet; the article also tells us "alligators longer than 20 inches are not allowed to be sent through the mail." Rest easy, citizens: if you accidentally receive a package of live alligators in the mail, be assured that none of them will be more than 20 inches long.