Christmas Card arrived 93 years late...
Have anyone of you heard about Ethel Martin's of Oberlin,Kansas and what happened to her mail???Well,I was reading some online news today and saw Ethel Martin's mail story and I wanna share it with you all...In Kansas Post Office,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, 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...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."
It is sucks to know that the greeting card that was sent to Ethel Martin,ninety three years ago was not received by her on time...but it is so amazing to know that after all those years the card was still in good shape,although it did not come on time,it still came on its destination,like what they said it is better late than never...but,the sad thing is that Ethel Martin was not able to read and see what her cousins sent her...I am sure most of you right now are glad to get mails just a little bit late unlike what happened to Ethel's which arrived ninety three years late...
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