Comments on: Postcard arrives 69 years late

By: mr_bloo_sky

mr_bloo_sky — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 23:32:00 +0000

I can actually kind of beat that. Back in the early 1980s I mailed a check to pay a local department store credit card bill. I was working at a local college, and the mailroom had a tray for outgoing mail where you could just put stamped mail. About seven years later, I was still working there when I got some unexpected internal mail. It turned out that the mailroom was being renovated and they found my credit card payment that had somehow become wedged between the counter and the wall. Inside the larger envelope was an “explanation” from the mailroom, and my original envelope.

So, after seven years it had never even left the building.

By: DevinC

DevinC — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 18:18:00 +0000

For anyone who wants to know but is just slightly lazier than I am, it works out to about 0.001224 miles per hour.

By: Joe Helfrich

Joe Helfrich — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:22:00 +0000

Actually, the post itself is 10 years late. This was the first post Rob every made at Boing Boing!

By: Jorpho

Jorpho — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:22:00 +0000

The link says, "Story Not Found". Perhaps it will turn up seventy years from now.

By: Conan Librarian

Conan Librarian — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:17:00 +0000

Too bad my own postcard I sent myself in the future is yet to arrive.

By: Gary Schafer

Gary Schafer — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:01:00 +0000

Er, um, unless you’re using the new “new math”, I think the headline should be “arrived almost *70* years late”. 2012-1943 = 69 ~= 70.