{"id":96,"date":"2016-09-21T15:59:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T15:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2016\/09\/21\/1916-ad-chides-congress-for-not-investing-in\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:23:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:23:21","slug":"1916-ad-chides-congress-for-not-investing-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2016\/09\/21\/1916-ad-chides-congress-for-not-investing-in\/","title":{"rendered":"1916 ad chides Congress for not investing in pneumatic tubes for first class mail delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Scott Edelman writes, \u201cAn ad in the December 1916 issue of The Scoop<\/a>, a magazine \u2018written by newspaper men for newspaper men,\u2019 decries the fact Congress appropriated funds for continued mail delivery by pneumatic tubes in New York City, but failed to do the same for Chicago, and insists the loss of that technology ‘would be calamitous.\u2019 At the time, 10 miles of two-way, eight-inch tubes running under Chicago delivered 8,000,000 pieces of mail daily. To the suggestion that mail should instead be delivered by trucks rather than pneumatic tubes, the question is asked, ‘If we are going backward, why not get a wheelbarrow?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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mostlysignssomeportents: Scott Edelman writes, \u201cAn ad in the December 1916 issue of The Scoop, a magazine \u2018written by newspaper men for newspaper men,\u2019 decries the fact Congress appropriated funds for continued mail delivery by pneumatic tubes in New York City, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1540,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/07\/26\/kucinich-asks-holder-why-justice-department-is\/","url_meta":{"origin":96,"position":0},"title":"Kucinich Asks Holder Why Justice Department Is Investigating Antiwar Activists | The Dissenter","author":"aslam","date":"July 26, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesRep. 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