Long Lost Christmas Card Dated 1914 Arrives Nearly a Century Later

[RitcheyRch]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316896,00.html
A postcard featuring a color drawing of Santa Claus and a young girl was mailed in 1914, but it's journey was slower than Christmas. It just arrived in northwest Kansas.
The Christmas card was dated Dec. 23, 1914, and mailed to Ethel Martin of Oberlin, apparently from her cousins in Alma, Neb.
It's a mystery where it spent most of the last century, Oberlin Postmaster Steve Schultz said. "It's surprising that it never got thrown away," he said. "How someone found it, I don't know."
Ethel Martin is deceased, but Schultz said the post office wanted to get the card to a relative.
That's how the 93-year-old relic ended up with Bernice Martin, Ethel's sister-in-law. She said she believed the card had been found somewhere in Illinois.
"That's all we know," she said. "But it is kind of curious. We'd like to know how it got down there."
The card was placed inside another envelope with modern postage for the trip to Oberlin — the one-cent postage of the early 20th century wouldn't have covered it, Martin said.
"We don't know much about it," she said. "But wherever they kept it, it was in perfect shape."

[~FM]

That's a neat story.

[Dave C]

now if they can just find the two checks those fawkers lost last month

[moneypit]

Yeah right... Mail just seems to get lost in the "postal Portal Space"... Then it just pops right back into existance after being sent in 1914. Like it floated back out of the rafters into the pile of outgoing mail.
Just a holiday story that gives a warm and fuzzy feeling to people that someone decided to makeup....Ok back to your regularly scheduled dull life.

[maxwedge]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316896,00.html..... She said she believed the card had been found somewhere in Illinois...."
That is a real shocker that the post office would leave some mail in IL on accident. I got a letter last week that was clearly addressed to somebody on Oak street in Racine Wisconsin. I live on Lee st. in Bloomington IL....easy mistake I guess.:idea:

[RitcheyRch]

Surprised wasnt rejected for lack of postage.