For mayday and asdf: Christmas card arrives 93 years late
 

Christmas card arrives 93 years late

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

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

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.

That's how the 93-year-old relic ended up with Bernice Martin, Ethel's sister-in-law. She said she believed the card had been found somewhere in Illinois.

"That's all we know," she said. "But it is kind of curious. We'd like to know how it got down there."

The card was placed inside another envelope with modern postage for the trip to Oberlin — the one-cent postage of the early 20th century wouldn't have covered it, Martin said.

"We don't know much about it," she said. "But wherever they kept it, it was in perfect shape."

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Thats a bit fucking rich.

oh asdf will love this <3

I wonder if the post office has been intentionally holding back a card or two every year just so they can drop these stories every December.

did anyone see that play about a library book that gets returned 150 years late. whole thing is just a boring monologue by one guy

Isn't this the basic premise for the new Terminator?

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that is so amazing. i love that. thanks Warsaw! u r the best :)

a/s/l annmarìe?

26/f/ct :D

Petition to ban that smiley from Netphoria.

Seriously.

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on the note of smiley icons, i think we should get some hugging ones, like one smiley hugging the other smiley. also a smiley with a tissue box in case someone needs to let out a cry. and different colors of smiling ones. and maybe a blowing a kiss one. and maybe an excited one. like one so excited that they are jumping up and down with glee. and a bubblebath one- for relaxation. and a smiley with a rose. giving a rose. and...what else?

one that mutes annmarie

:D

oh stop it grouchy^ (hugging smilies)

i love bubble bathes mostly in the winter when its 20 degrees out like right now. they are in my top 5 for relaxation. i might do one later on :D :D :D

the next time i have a bath im slitting my wrists

dont you dare^ :noway:

do bubbles instead much more fun :)

psychological question: is mayday a goodlooking person or sort of manly looking? anyone know? have you posted a picture annemarie?

link? pic?

uh... i dont know if i want to post a pic. the one i post wasn't that good but yes i'm good looking

you can pm me it if you want. i'm trustworthy

wasn't it said in Johannes 12:3. "ye who do not trust your fellow man, fear every day and cannot be at ease".

no it isn't the lady who got it doesn't even give a shit

if i got something like that i would be SO STOKED. I love old stuff, it is sick.

i only have a few pics of me on my computer right now, i'm not happy with any of them really. i'll post one maybe later sometime

me too. i love old stuff . so cool

i thought you were comfortable with the way you look. isn't the heart and soul what really counts?