Christmas Card Arrives 93 Years Late

It’s a Christmas (card) mystery! A woman in Nebraska just received a Christmas card that was mailed in 1914.

And I thought I was late getting my cards out…

OBERLIN, Kansas (AP) — A postcard featuring a color drawing of Santa Claus and a young girl was mailed in 1914, but its journey was slower than Christmas. It just arrived in northwest Kansas.

The Christmas card was dated December 23, 1914, and mailed to Ethel Martin of Oberlin, apparently from her cousins in Alma, Nebraska.

It’s a mystery where it spent most of the last century, Oberlin Postmaster Steve Schultz said.

“It’s surprising that it never got thrown away,” he said. “How someone found it, I don’t know.”

Ethel Martin is deceased, but Schultz said the post office wanted to get the card to a relative. Read the rest of the article at CNN.

While we’re on the subject of Christmas mysteries, who’s decorating New Jersey’s Garden State Parkway?