{"id":128548,"date":"2015-11-05T07:52:52","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T14:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/05\/the-rise-and-fall-of-mail-chutes.html"},"modified":"2015-11-05T10:45:53","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T17:45:53","slug":"the-rise-and-fall-of-mail-chutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/05\/the-rise-and-fall-of-mail-chutes.html","title":{"rendered":"The rise, and fall, of mail chutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first office building I worked in had one, though not nearly so elaborate. I&#39;ve always thought them delightfully retro &#8212; and, in a day of stricter fire codes and fewer letters, attractively obsolete.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/new-york-citys-mail-chutes-are-lovely-ingenious-and-almost-entirely-ignored?utm_content=buffera37f5&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=twitter.com&#038;utm_campaign=buffer'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/IQCEv2xLjF3dMexeBXGRrfT_uVH6OzjwmXWIti41na01buaAuIQzxo41I84QwKnlymn13z5JbS07hBjKnj5fe_afxhBk57hyQ9nFht8=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/new-york-citys-mail-chutes-are-lovely-ingenious-and-almost-entirely-ignored?utm_content=buffera37f5&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=twitter.com&#038;utm_campaign=buffer'>New York City&#8217;s Mail Chutes are Lovely, Ingenious and Almost Entirely Ignored<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nIf you have ever worked in an old building, the chances are you will have at some point walked past a small mysterious brass box . Located about halfway up&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/2cmv9Ytnjkt'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first office building I worked in had one, though not nearly so elaborate. I&#39;ve always thought them delightfully retro &#8212; and, in a day of stricter fire codes and fewer letters, attractively obsolete. New York City&#8217;s Mail Chutes are Lovely, Ingenious and Almost Entirely Ignored If you have ever worked in an old building, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/05\/the-rise-and-fall-of-mail-chutes.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The rise, and fall, of mail chutes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,739,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-architecture","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3036,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/20\/toys_and_games.html","url_meta":{"origin":128548,"position":0},"title":"Toys and Games","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 20-Aug-02 9:49am","format":false,"excerpt":"It's This or That Tuesday (now at a new site)....","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Personal Q&amp;A&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Personal Q&amp;A","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/personal\/personal-qa"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":129316,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/31\/to-boldly-deliver-mail-where-no-mail-has-been-delivered-before.html","url_meta":{"origin":128548,"position":1},"title":"To Boldly Deliver Mail Where No Mail Has Been Delivered Before","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 31-Dec-15 1:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, maybe not (and who knows what will be going on with the USPS by the end of 2016), but ...... and I'm never altogether comfortable with US stamps \"commemorating\" living people or living (still protected) intellectual property (i.e., providing free publicity to some corporation), but ...... dammit, Jim, it's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9329,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/27\/corporate_e_mai.html","url_meta":{"origin":128548,"position":2},"title":"Corporate e-mail protocol","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 27-Jul-06 8:26am","format":false,"excerpt":"Sending an e-mail to everyone in the corporation celebrating your team's World Cup win is dubious, but perhaps understandable. 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