{"id":207,"date":"2014-06-05T09:30:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T13:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfredarchives.wordpress.com\/?p=207"},"modified":"2014-06-05T09:30:23","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T13:30:23","slug":"envelopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/2014\/06\/05\/envelopes\/","title":{"rendered":"Envelopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2014\/05\/envelope-1870.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-208\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2014\/05\/envelope-1870.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Envelope, 1870\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2014\/05\/envelope-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-209\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2014\/05\/envelope-2014.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Envelope, 2014\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCertainly there have been changes in our postal system over the decades but mail does still arrive in a paper envelope at times. It was not unusual many years ago, as evidenced by the 1870 sample on the left, for the address to be quite brief (just a name, town, state &#8212; no street address or zip code). But, the envelope on the right also arrived perfectly fine in the the new era of 2014; it was addressed to Alfred University, East Slope, Alfred, NY 14802. Given that the University is situated on the eastern side of Alfred&#8217;s valley, the post office knew exactly where to send it!<br \/>\nOne other aspect that&#8217;s missing from today&#8217;s mail is the decorative engravings that used to grace envelopes and stationery. The detailed campus scene on the 1870 envelope is quite graceful and pleasing; much more pleasant to receive than the plain, white envelopes of today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certainly there have been changes in our postal system over the decades but mail does still arrive in a paper envelope at times. It was not unusual many years ago, as evidenced by the 1870 sample on the left, for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/2014\/06\/05\/envelopes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}