Christmas card arrives after 93 years
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Talk about snail mail! A card sent on December 23rd, 1914 from Alabama took 93 years to travel to what should have been a 750-mile journey to its final destination in Oberlin, Ohio.
The Christmas card was sent to Ethel Martin, who used to live in Oberlin from her cousins in Alabama. Since Ethel is no longer alive, the Post Master in Oberlin wanted someone from her family to have it. That is how it ended up with Bernice Martin, Ethel's sister-in-law, who lives in NorthwestKansas.
To add to the mystery, the card was mailed from Chicago, Illinois. Nobody knows how the card got to Chicago or where it has been all these years or why someone bothered to put the correct postage and mail it after all these years. Whatever the reason, this will be a great story for Ethel's family to talk about every Christmas, for years to come.
Sources: MSNBC.com
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- Mattalmost 13 yearsI learned that it took 93 years to finally arrive in the destination. :)
- Luke almost 13 yearsPoor family, it should have arrived already, its sad that he isn't alive anymore.
- Rubyalmost 13 yearsToday I learned that it took a card 93 years to deliver.
- Laquilaalmost 13 yearsToday In this article I learned that there us actually a card that can be delivered after 93 years.I htought by now it would be torn up or lost.It seems like they would have found it by then.
- firebirdalmost 13 yearswow!!!!!
- mikealmost 13 yearsThat guy maybe took a wrong way to a another town.
- J Colealmost 13 yearsthats amazing
- samanthaalmost 13 yearswow, i never knwe it could take this long to send something! well atleast someone mailed it to the right address!!! :)
- jessalmost 13 yearsi learned that even after 93 years somebody still sent the card to the same adress
bezi12about 13 yearsweird
