Postcard arrives in Ohio 47 years late

sfgate ^ | March 14, 2009

[JoeProBono]

A woman's postcard bearing greetings from Montana has finally arrived in northeastern Ohio — 47 years later.Insurance agent Dave Conn opened his post office box in the community of Hudson last week and found the mailing sent from Helena, Mont., in 1962. It was sent to Marion White, the previous renter of the box, who had died in 1988. U.S. Postal Service spokesman Victor Dubina says the postcard may have been stuck in equipment or lost behind a mail chute.

[JoeProBono]

[EGPWS]

A woman's postcard bearing greetings from Montana has finally arrived in northeastern Ohio — 47 years later.

That is one heck of a bunch of rain, snow, sleet, and hail!

[JoeProBono]

[Political Junkie Too]

Did they ask for the additional 19 cents due? These are hard times, you know... :-)

-PJ

[jwparkerjr]

re: postcard may have been stuck in equipment or lost behind a mail chute

Or maybe it was taken back then by a practical joker and put into an envelope marked “to be opened after my death” and the joker just recently died.

[SloopJohnB]

It would make a great ‘Snail Mail’ example.

[OCC]

Perhaps a lazy Postman stashed a bag of mail in his apartment and recently passed?

[JoeProBono]

[Big Giant Head]

You just never know how this stuff happens. I subscribe to a computer magazine which means I get it a bit later than the news stands already. In my mail route, I was delivering the same magazine I get, only a month after I recieved mine.

I can’t understand how it can get mis-sorted for so long with addresses printed right on the front. Makes no sense. A post card I can see getting stuck somewhere and lost, but a freekin’ magazine?

[TexasRepublic]

If you like the Post Office, you’ll LOVE socialized medicine.