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Offline SwampThing762

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Postcard takes 46 years to reach destination
« on: February 13, 2013, 12:59:05 AM »
From the AP:

Boy's postcard mailed in 1967 turns up in Oklahoma     Must Read?Yes     19          Email Story Print     19 hours ago
   PAULS VALLEY, Okla. — It may have taken 46 years, but one boy's postcard has made it home to Mom.
Bert Jacobson sent the postcard to his mother in Pauls Valley, Okla., in January 1967, when he was 13 years old. The card, from the Old Country Store Museum in Hereford, Penn., arrived last Friday.
Jacobson tells Tulsa television station KOTV  that he traveled to the East Coast with his father and cousins to buy concrete trucks and mixing equipment for the family business.
The postcard was sent with a 4-cent Abraham Lincoln stamp. The card reads: "Mom, Hi. We've been having a great time."
Jacobson's sister, Marilyn Hubbard, says their mother wasn't surprised that her son sent a card — only that it took 46 years to arrive.









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Re: Postcard takes 46 years to reach destination
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2013, 06:18:03 AM »
Dang good thing it got there before the USPS cut out the Saturday deliveries....or it would have taken even longer! :o

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Re: Postcard takes 46 years to reach destination
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2013, 06:27:45 AM »
Wonder if it came postage due ? lol
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Re: Postcard takes 46 years to reach destination
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2013, 06:30:28 AM »
My sister sent me a birthday cake from Austin to College Station one year ( about 90 miles).  After 6 months and 5 postmarks to Fort Worth......I got the crumbs.

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Re: Postcard takes 46 years to reach destination
« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2013, 07:47:10 AM »
Hope the IRS doesn't send me my refund that way!! :'( gypsyman
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Re: Postcard takes 46 years to reach destination
« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2013, 05:44:09 AM »
We'll get it done regardless how long it takes. ;) ;)
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