The following teaser is from an article posted April 17, 2014 at the abc.go.com website.
A postcard mailed in 1940 and delivered this week gives new meaning to the phrase “snail mail,” but also to the Post Office vow that the mail must go through – eventually.
The card, addressed to Florence Marion, was finally delivered to her great-grandson Alan Marion 74 years late.
Records show the postcard was mailed on Feb. 20, 1940 – with a once cent stamp – from Portland, Ore. The card arrived at the Butte Falls, Ore., post office July 2013 and was uncovered by Sunny Bryant, a new USPS employee.
“I was overwhelmed with the job at that point, so to come across the postcard was just a shock,” said Bryant. “My first response was what am I supposed to do with this?”
Bryant held on to the letter until later that summer when she overheard a member of the Rogue Valley Genealogical Society, Charleen Brown, discussing her work at the post office. Sunny Bryant decided to approach Brown and showed her the relic.
