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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angelmjohnover 10 yearsWoah- NinjaDoctoralmost 11 yearsThat's crazy!!!!! I would not trust my mail with that post office!
- randomalmost 11 yearswow, wierd
girlwholikesmudalmost 11 yearsdid it get stuck somewhere? or what? very slow, i get my mail much quicker :P
fwoof316almost 11 yearswow. that was extremely slow mail service.- Chalupa100almost 11 yearsWOW!
rozebalmost 11 yearsThat is weird, but, it is awesome!- miraclealmost 11 yearsnow THAT is a Christmas merical ! would be great to be able to have something so antiqued
- rozebalmost 11 yearsIt's miracle.
- Verseyabout 11 yearscool
- Jay200about 11 years#Awesomeness btw it was 750 miles