Around December 15, 2004, I send 2 postcards to some friends in Minnesota from Niagra Falls, Canada. I thought they were lost for sure, but they both just arrived, about 3 months later! I know I sent them from another country, but I only live about 900 miles away.
Does anyone have me beat? Where did you send your postcard from and how long did it take to arrive?
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I sent a postcard from Peru to TX in July 2004...still waiting for it to arrive, if it ever will.
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Not a postcard, by my mom sent a package to my older brother at college three years ago and it arrived earlier this past semester, and that was inside the US Postal system!
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Wow. My longest for a postcard was slightly over a year and a half, and it was mailed from the Ukranian Vernadsky Base in Antarctica.
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I sent a postcard from Ontario to Alberta once - to the postal code T0K 0E0. It took 8 months to arrive because Canada Post, in its infinite wisdom, sent the card to Tokyo. Duhhhhh
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My mom wrote to my grandfather in Hyderabad, India but the letter reached him months later after passing through Hyderabad, Pakistan. At least the postal services are friendly enough....
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I read an article on postcards that have taken decades/centuries to arrive - check out Fortean Times issue: 10 March 2005 http://www.forteantimes.com/mag_info/this_issue.shtml ... you'd have to get it though the article isn't on the web!!
quote:Originally posted by djperry:
Around December 15, 2004, I send 2 postcards to some friends in Minnesota from Niagra Falls, Canada. I thought they were lost for sure, but they both just arrived, about 3 months later! I know I sent them from another country, but I only live about 900 miles away.
Does anyone have me beat? Where did you send your postcard from and how long did it take to arrive?
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well, this is a bit late coming, but not as late as my postcartd.
we just recived one from Italy that was posted 75 years ago, does that win ?.
we just recived one from Italy that was posted 75 years ago, does that win ?.
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Mark_lester wrote:well, this is a bit late coming, but not as late as my postcartd.
we just recived one from Italy that was posted 75 years ago, does that win ?.
Probably. Could you post a scan of it...I'd be interested in what a post card from 1937 Italy looks like.
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Not a postcard, but we sent a package from Poland and it made it back to brisbane 8 months later
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