OBERLIN, Kan. - 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. ADVERTISEMENT
The Christmas card was dated Dec. 23, 1914, and mailed to Ethel Martin of Oberlin, apparently from her cousins in Alma, Neb.
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.
That's how the 93-year-old relic ended up with Bernice Martin, Ethel's sister-in-law. She said she believed the card had been found somewhere in Illinois.
"That's all we know," she said. "But it is kind of curious. We'd like to know how it got down there."
The card was placed inside another envelope with modern postage for the trip to Oberlin — the one-cent postage of the early 20th century wouldn't have covered it, Martin said.
"We don't know much about it," she said. "But wherever they kept it, it was in perfect shape."
so if ya accidentally get someone else's birthday/holiday/whatever card in the mail, do you return it, or open it in hopes of finding money inside? Hey, if it came to your mailbox, finders keepers!
That is a tiny town I have to drive through to get to my wife's in-laws. The highway runs right through the town and they expect you to slow down from 65 to 35 for less than a block.
scottaa1 wrote:so if ya accidentally get someone else's birthday/holiday/whatever card in the mail, do you return it, or open it in hopes of finding money inside? Hey, if it came to your mailbox, finders keepers!
I put it in a mailbox at the post office. Opening someone else's mail is a federal offense and I don't think I'd like jail too much.
I am the Reaper of Men, The Chaser of Souls, The Weaver of Nightmares, I am The Heart of Darkness. I now, and ever will be, The Purity of Evil.
scottaa1 wrote:so if ya accidentally get someone else's birthday/holiday/whatever card in the mail, do you return it, or open it in hopes of finding money inside? Hey, if it came to your mailbox, finders keepers!
I put it in a mailbox at the post office. Opening someone else's mail is a federal offense and I don't think I'd like jail too much.
But how am I supposed to lift identities if I don't steal mail? Huh?
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