{"id":3,"date":"2007-02-01T13:16:20","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T21:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interactivehank.com\/blog\/?p=3"},"modified":"2025-07-22T05:31:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:31:56","slug":"us-postal-service-in-1951","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactivehank.com\/?p=3","title":{"rendered":"Goin&#8217; Postal in 1951"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.interactivehank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/us_postal.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.interactivehank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/us_postal-300x248.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.interactivehank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/us_postal-300x248.png 300w, https:\/\/www.interactivehank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/us_postal.png 331w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love the post office and what better way to introduce my new blog?<br>I have always heard about and firmly believed in the information that the USPO operated a citywide pneumatic delivery system underneath the sidewalks of New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, in the back of my mind I also always thought, that is freakin&#8217; impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, I stole this from a digg story and bring it here for all to view. A 1951 article from Popular Science that describes the process of sending a letter from coast to coast and starts with a description of the 27 mile long underground tube system in NYC. Oh, and has lots of pretty pictures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below is a link to the full article in pdf format. I will open in a new window. If you would like to view or download the pdf article and read it later, click here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.interactivehank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/pneumatic-tubes.pdf\">nyc pneumatic-tubes mail system<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the post office and what better way to introduce my new blog?I have always heard about and firmly believed in the information that the USPO operated a citywide pneumatic delivery system underneath the sidewalks of New York. But, in the back of my mind I also always thought,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactivehank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactivehank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactivehank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactivehank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactivehank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactivehank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1965,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactivehank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/1965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactivehank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactivehank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactivehank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}