{"id":13779,"date":"2021-07-14T23:40:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T04:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=13779"},"modified":"2021-07-14T23:40:15","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T04:40:15","slug":"how-speedy-was-the-mail-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/14\/how-speedy-was-the-mail-3\/","title":{"rendered":"How Speedy Was the Mail?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Ever wonder how fast the mail was one hundred years ago? There was a slight clue in an old pension file:<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Letter dated 3 May 1907, Washington, DC&#8211;sent to West Point, Illinois.<\/li><li>Response to letter is dated 7 May 1907, West Point, Illinois.<\/li><li>Response received 9 May 1907, Washington DC.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The letter was a request for information in a pension file. There&#8217;s no guarantee of when anything was mailed and a date could easily be off, but the timeline was tighter than I thought it might be for 1907.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just something to think about. Are there clues about the speed of mail in an old record you have?\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder how fast the mail was one hundred years ago? There was a slight clue in an old pension file: Letter dated 3 May 1907, Washington, DC&#8211;sent to West Point, Illinois. Response to letter is dated 7 May 1907, West Point, Illinois. Response received 9 May 1907, Washington DC. The letter was a request [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}