A Michigan woman Brittany Keech got quite a surprise when she went to her mailbox this week. Among her regular bills and junk mail was a postcard that had been mailed almost 100 years ago.
She said that she didn’t give the card much thought at first because she was busy with her kids and her daily things. “I thought it was very peculiar that I was receiving a postcard because nobody sends postcards anymore nowadays,” Keech said. “I went ‘OK, this is different.'” Later she noticed that the card was postmarked October 29, 1920. It had her Belding, Michigan, address but was written to someone named Roy McQueen.
The card reads:
“Dear Cousins,
Hope this will find you all well. We are quite well but mother has lame knees. It is awful cold here. I just finished my history lesson and am going to bed pretty soon. My father is shaving and my mother is telling me your address. I will have to close for a night. Hope grandma and grandpa are well. Don’t forget to write us—Roy get his pants fixed yet.”
It was signed by Flossie Burgess. The card has a Halloween theme. There’s a George Washington one cent stamp on the back and the postmark says Jamestown, but the state appears to be covered by some kind of sticker.
Keech, 30, said she has no idea what delayed the card, which was mailed decades before she was born. A spokesperson for the Postal Service said that in most cases these incidents do not involve mail that had been lost in their network and later found. What they typically find is that old letters and postcards are re-entered into their system. The end result is what they do best — as long as there is a deliverable address and postage, the card or letter gets delivered.
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