"The riders raced over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, through Placerville, California and on to Sacramento. Around midnight on April 14, 1860, the first mail pouch was delivered via the Pony Express to San Francisco."
Where has the time gone...?
tangor
5:40 am on Apr 14, 2015 (gmt 0)
More intrigued by your first hand report of events you witnessed, grandpa! What's in the jug you're sippin'? That Ponce De Leon juice?
lucy24
8:13 pm on Apr 14, 2015 (gmt 0)
Oh, darn. I saw the headline and thought there was going to be a story about some stray piece of Pony Express mail getting delivered, 150+ years late.
Was it really 1860? I always thought of it as the 1870's or '80's, but I now realize that would have been pointless. Oops.
adder
1:01 pm on Apr 15, 2015 (gmt 0)
@grandpa, you mean to say you didn't have proper email back then? Must've been difficult to share selfies with friends...
Oh. I thought we were supposed to think about those. (Or the irate variant that says "I haven't come all that far and I'm not a baby".)
LifeinAsia
4:54 pm on Apr 16, 2015 (gmt 0)
If we still had the Pony Express, we probably wouldn't have as much junk mail. And "The check is in the mail" excuse would give you a much longer buffer.
And their competitor Federal Express could use the phrase, "When it absolutely, positively needs to be there next week."
