A Belated Christmas Greeting
Published Date: 12-18-2007 01:42 PM CT
And finally this Midday.The mail must go though, but sometimes it takes a little while.A belated Christmas greeting has been delivered - nearly a century late!The US Postal Service has delivered a Christmas postcard 93 years after it was mailed.The card with a drawing of Santa Claus and a young girl was mailed from Alma, Nebraska on December 23, 1914.It is not known where the Christmas card has spent the last nine decades, but it remained in perfect condition.The card found by a postman was recently delivered to a relative of the original recipient.By the way, postage in 1914 was one cent.
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