Man receives postcard 40 years later

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Man Receives Postcard 70 Years Later
Man Receives Postcard 70 Years Later


This is the epitome of "snail mail."

Alan Marion of Phoenix, Oregon, received a letter addressed to his great grandmother Florence - written more than 70 years ago.

The old mail arrived at a USPS office last July and a worker who noticed the unusual postage date went searching for Marion's family since Florence passed away almost 50 years ago.



Alan received the letter last week and told the Mail Tribune, "Somebody's been looking over my shoulder here, and it must have been my great-grandmother."

The postal service still doesn't know what took so long for the letter to arrive - but it's not the first time a curious case like this has made headlines.

Last year, an Oklahoma mom received a letter from her son 46 years after he sent it. In it, he told his mom about how much fun he was having during a trip with his father and cousins.

And in Minnesota, a World War II-era postcard took 68 years to get delivered. It was penned by a naval trainee who served on the submarine USS Cuttlefish.

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