Illinois Postcard Lost in 1953 Finally Delivered 72 Years Later

A postcard frozen in time

Alan Ball is 88 now, but imagine being contacted out of nowhere about something you sent off when you were a teenager. That's your literal past showing up in the mail decades later, saying, "Hello, remember me?". All it does show is that time really moves fast, and something as small as a misplaced postcard flying back to us can be a good reminder.

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How it was finally discovered

Everyone loves to give the post office a hard time, but this one really does fall into the "it got lost in the system" mythology of the department. The fact that it might've slipped into a crevice at the post office and remained hidden there for decades is something else. It's like out of a movie, or