{"id":7513,"date":"2013-12-26T04:49:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T11:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/?p=7513"},"modified":"2013-12-26T04:49:41","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T11:49:41","slug":"post-office-catches-up-on-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/26\/post-office-catches-up-on-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Office Catches Up On Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>26 December 1921 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/2013\/12\/26\/post-office-catches-up-on-christmas\/canceled-holyoke-postmark-wm\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7516\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7516\" alt=\"Holyoke Postmark\" src=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/canceled-holyoke-postmark-wm.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Opening of Office For Few Hours Yesterday Lightens Work For Men Today<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Opening of a parcel post window from 4 in the afternoon to 8 last night proved a beneficial move in the plan of Postmaster T. J. Costello to keep mail on the move so as not to add to burdens of clerks and delivery men. They will have a hard enough job as it is today delivering many belated packages. Through special delivery messengers hundreds of persons were enabled to receive Christmas presents just at the right time yesterday. Although crowds of preceding days were lacking in the post-office corridors, enough business was furnished to keep several employees on the jump.<\/p>\n<p>Gray-clad carriers who worked late Saturday night sorting piles of mail-stuffs\u00a0 will shoulder heavy burdens this morning. The parcel postmen will still disgorge many loads, though they lightened freight a bit by the extra deliveries yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>From <em>The Springfield Republican.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>26 December 1921 Opening of Office For Few Hours Yesterday Lightens Work For Men Today Opening of a parcel post window from 4 in the afternoon to 8 last night proved a beneficial move in the plan of Postmaster T. J. Costello to keep mail on the move so as not to add to burdens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,497,472],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7513"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7513"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7536,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7513\/revisions\/7536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}