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.
Sounds like postal service is getting faster in the NE.
If you like the Post Office, you’ll darn sure like government healthcare.
I once mailed a letter across Houston. It arrived a month later by way of Tennessee, according to the post marks.
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