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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- Jay200about 11 yearsthat's really cool how it ended up there after 93 years
headream100about 11 yearsThat's something quite antique. But for some reason, it doesn't seem like it.- Annieabout 11 yearsHoly moly! That is AWESOME
ocelotover 11 yearsSoo cool!! I wonder if it got beat up through it's journey!
mintshineover 11 yearswow~!!- doodleover 11 yearsold card
- cecelovespanasover 11 yearshow did it take so long
shock12over 11 yearsawesome
imdabombalmost 12 yearsThat's so awesome!!!- Awesomnessalmost 12 yearsIt should not take 93 years to mail a card 650 miles it should be there within a month to two months