Christmas Card Arrives 93 Years Late

Wow, and my wife gives me grief for being ten minutes late for dinner.

OBERLIN, Kansas (AP) -- 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 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. 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. (H/T - CNN.com)

Well, I guess it could have been worse. The letter could have contained the mortgage payment, a winning lottery ticket, or someone's new kidney!

Ya know, the next time some letter carrier gets offended about some smart comment about slow delivery, show him this story.