Postcard stamped in 1920 delivered 100 years later

BELDING, Mich. — We’ve all likely experienced delays with the post office, however potentially now no longer treasure this.

A Belding girl says she factual bought a postcard the outdated day that used to be postmarked 100 years within the past.

“Yea, that’s a diminutive bit too gradual,” Brittany Keech acknowledged just a few capacity USPS extend in delivering a postcard.

When she walked to her mail on Tuesday she had no thought what she used to be about to search out.

“It used to be sitting lawful on top of the mail,” she acknowledged.

It used to be an stale Halloween postcard that used to be presumably lost within the mail.

“I open taking a leer at it and I’m treasure, ‘okay it’s been via some put on and slip’’, she acknowledged.

You might perchance leer factual how stale it is miles. There’s a George Washington one-cent label within the nook, and a postmark of October 29^th, 1920, from Jamestown.

Brittany talked about the front of the cardboard that fits with this time of one year.

“It presentations a witch with a cat and and a goose and an owl and says, ‘Halloween greetings. Which would you otherwise be? A goose or a pumpkin head?’

The writing is stale and in cursive and addressed to a Roy McQueen on Division Avenue.

The demonstrate says:

Expensive Cousins,

Hope this can net you all successfully. We are moderately successfully however mother has abominable lame knees. It is abominable chilly right here. I factual carried out my historical past lesson and am going to mattress stunning soon. My father is shaving and my mother is telling me your take care of. I’m going to procure to end for a evening. Hope grandma and grandpa are successfully. Don’t disregard to write us – Roy get his pants mounted yet.

Flossie Burgess

Brittany posted the letter on the “Positively Belding” page on Facebook and it already has extra than 100 feedback and dozens of shares.

She hopes out of all those views any individual can put her in contact with a relative to get it to the family.

“This is also something that their folk can relate, ‘yea I take into account when your worthy-worthy grandma would show me reports.’”

Brittany says if she will be able to’t net the family she’s gonna strive to get it put into the museum in Belding.

We did attain out to the post office for comment and a spokesperson knowledgeable me, “In most conditions these incidents fabricate now no longer private mail that had been lost in our community and later figured out. What we in total net is that stale letters and postcards – most steadily bought at flea markets, vintage shops and even online – are re-entered into our device. The head consequence is what we fabricate perfect – as long as there might perchance be a deliverable take care of and postage, the cardboard or letter gets delivered.”