Snail Mail For Sure!

By H. Hughes
|  Sunday, Mar 15, 2009  |  Updated 11:56 AM PDT
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Snail Mail For Sure!

Associated Press

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Mailing a letter the old-fashioned way is often referred to as snail mail. This particular story certainly lives up to that saying.

A postcard arrived at a P.O. Box in Ohio this past week -- 47 years late!

The card was send from Montana to Ohio in 1962. Both the sender and intended receiver are no longer living.

A Postal Service Spokesperson said the card may have been stuck inside equipment or lost.

When the card was mailed nearly five decades ago, the price of a stamp was four cents.

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Posted Mar 15, 2009
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