Monday, December 17, 2007

Christmas card arrives 93 years late...

A postcard featuring a colour drawing of Santa Claus and a young girl was mailed in 1914, but its journey was slower than Christmas. It has just arrived in northwest Kansas.

The Christmas card was dated December 23, 1914, and mailed to Ethel Martin of Oberlin, apparently from her cousins in Alma, Nebraska.

It’s a mystery where it spent most of the last century, Oberlin postmaster Steve Schultz said. "It’s surprising that it never got thrown away," he said. "How someone found it, I don’t know."

Ethel Martin is deceased, but Schultz said the post office wanted to get the card to a relative.