Christmas card arrives after 93 years

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Talk about snail mail! A card sent on December 23rd, 1914 from Alabama took 93 years to travel to what should have been a 750-mile journey to its final destination in Oberlin, Ohio.

The Christmas card was sent to Ethel Martin, who used to live in Oberlin from her cousins in Alabama. Since Ethel is no longer alive, the Post Master in Oberlin wanted someone from her family to have it. That is how it ended up with Bernice Martin, Ethel's sister-in-law, who lives in NorthwestKansas.

To add to the mystery, the card was mailed from Chicago, Illinois. Nobody knows how the card got to Chicago or where it has been all these years or why someone bothered to put the correct postage and mail it after all these years. Whatever the reason, this will be a great story for Ethel's family to talk about every Christmas, for years to come.

Sources: MSNBC.com

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128 Comments
  • love-pizza-lifealmost 7 years
    wow i wounder if the person who sent the card forgot about a month later and lived a normal life without the card getting into her/his brain again.
    • nnnnabout 7 years
      i would be mad
      • happymango16about 7 years
        nice
        • lemonade11
          lemonade11over 7 years
          I have no words...
          • oreoshershey
            oreoshersheyabout 8 years
            COOL
            • Googy05over 8 years
              Thats weird because were has the card been for 92 years and.. Just akward. Was he still alive when he recieved it? Probally not
              • Wowover 8 years
                That took a little while
                • allison2122over 8 years
                  Very mysterious.
                  • grinkalmost 9 years
                    A little late for a Christmas Card don't ya think?
                    • ?almost 9 years
                      and im hear to give you a note