{"id":7347,"date":"2017-10-12T16:35:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T21:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7347"},"modified":"2017-10-12T16:35:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T21:35:05","slug":"how-speedy-was-the-mail-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/12\/how-speedy-was-the-mail-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How Speedy Was the Mail?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder how fast the mail was one hundred years ago? There was a slight clue in an old US Civil War pension file:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Letter dated 3 May 1907, Washington, DC&#8211;sent to West Point, Illinois.<\/li>\n<li>Response to letter is dated 7 May 1907, West Point, Illinois.<\/li>\n<li>Response received 9 May 1907, Washington DC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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<p>Just something to think about. Are there clues about the speed of mail in an old record you have?<\/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 US Civil War 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 [&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-7347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7347","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=7347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}