It’s not clear where the postcard has been during the intervening decades, or why it took so long to reach the address. Letters from years or decades past do sometimes turn up in people’s mailboxes, though a spokesman for the Postal Service said it was rarely because they became lost in the system. At least one person joked that mail can’t be delivered in a timely manner. Some members, trying to find out more about the McQueens to help Ms. Keech, have become sleuths. One person theorized that someone may have bought the old postcard at a store and simply “dropped it in the mail.”

Source: New York Times September 11, 2020 16:07 UTC