Posted on 10/21/2010 8:08:30 AM PDT by JoeProBono
FARMINGTON, Maine - A Maine college said a postcard recently arrived with a 1946 postmark and the name of a freshman student from that year.
Andrea Butterfield, a University of Maine at Farmington mailroom employee, said the postcard immediately stood out because it bore a 1-cent stamp, a 1946 postmark and an address for Farmington State Teacher's College, which was long ago absorbed by the current school, The Sun-Journal, Lewiston, Maine, reported Wednesday.
The postcard was addressed to then-freshman Ruth Webber, now Ruth Webber McGary, 83, and the item was presented to her when she recently visited the school for a ceremony to award a scholarship bearing her name.
Butterfield said the postcard came from the Farmington Post Office but its location for the past 64 years is unknown.
A postcard sent to a freshman Ruth Webber at Farmington State Teachers College, currently the University of Maine at Farmington, took 64 years to reach the campus mailroom. After receiving the card Monday on the Farmington campus, Ruth Webber McGary holds the card above her college yearbook photo.
I recently received an email that was sent in 1964. I guess it got tangled up in some mailserver. [/jk]
Neither rain, nor sleet nor massive rip in the space-time continuum....
Was it addressed to a B. Hussein Obama Sr. in Kenya? :O)
It wasn’t airmail
Newman!!!
And it takes the same amount of time with our unionized postal carriers to deliver today..
Hope they find out where it’s been. I’m missing a lot of socks.
Parallel universe that occasionally intertwines with this one. Socks, pens, sunglasses, keys are most susceptible.
Probably arrived with a “Postage Due” sticker on it.
Wonder if the post office charged the school for the extra postage due.
It was sitting next to a lone shoe on the side of the road.
Don’t forget remote controls too.
I guess the increase in postage rates is to cover the cost of storing the mail . . .
I’m curious what was written on it.
Was it sent by her lover from 1946, who probably figured she didn’t want to see him anymore?
From where was it sent? Is the sender still there?
Is he/she having a great time?
Does he/she wish she were there?
Did it say, “I’m staying for a few weeks more, can you feed my dog?”
Was it a request for more $$ to get home?
Important stuff.
McCain’s absentee ballot votes should be delivered by Dec 23rd, 2079.
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