Here's an interesting story about a postcard that was delivered to its intended recipient about 60 years after it was originally mailed.
According to the news stories out there, Scott McMurry was a teenager in 1958 (give or take a few years) when his mother mailed a postcard from the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. Earlier this month, the postcard was received in Florida by a woman who has a similar street address to the Georgia address where McMurry lived as a child.
She and her friends did a little detective work and found McMurry in Virginia. In the meantime, the U.S. Postal Service reclaimed the postcard and finally delivered it to McMurry, about 53 years after it was first mailed.
For more details about the lost postcard, as well as some photos, read the original story in the Daytona Beach News-Journal or the updated story in the Chicago Sun-Times.
(Thanks to my husband for alerting me to this story that he came across online!)
According to the news stories out there, Scott McMurry was a teenager in 1958 (give or take a few years) when his mother mailed a postcard from the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. Earlier this month, the postcard was received in Florida by a woman who has a similar street address to the Georgia address where McMurry lived as a child.
She and her friends did a little detective work and found McMurry in Virginia. In the meantime, the U.S. Postal Service reclaimed the postcard and finally delivered it to McMurry, about 53 years after it was first mailed.
For more details about the lost postcard, as well as some photos, read the original story in the Daytona Beach News-Journal or the updated story in the Chicago Sun-Times.
(Thanks to my husband for alerting me to this story that he came across online!)
In Estonia took place similar story as it's described here.
ReplyDeleteExactly on an island of Estonia, in Hiiumaa.
The envelope which contained Estonian money( is in use anymore since 2011) is seen, here was on its journey 2 years and 25 days.