Postcard Delivered A Hundred Years Late
A Michigan woman got quite a surprise when she went to her mailbox this week -- amid her regular bills and junk mail was a postcard that had been mailed almost 100 years ago.
Brittany Keech told CNN that she didn't give the card much thought at first because she was busy with her kids and her daily hustle and bustle.
Later she noticed that the card was postmarked October 29, 1920. It had her Belding, Michigan, address but was written to someone named Roy McQueen in faded cursive writing.
Full story here.
Well this just sucks. This just sucks big time. Not sure the government needs to dismantle our Post Office, because apparently the Post Office is doing a fine job fucking things up themselves! A hundred years late. Did this thing get stuck the boot of your oldest employee? Were those boots then put in a trophy case and then only cleaned once every 50 years? Because that’s the only excuse you’ve got, and it still sucks!
We’ll get to the explanation in a minute, but if part of your story that’s supposed to make us feel good is literally…
“The end result is what we do best -- as long as there is a deliverable address and postage, the card or letter gets delivered."
… then it’s a bad excuse. You’re leaving out WHEN it gets delivered, and at the end of the day it sounds like you just didn’t do your job. It seems really crazy to say “we do what we do best” when what’s in question is whether you delivered a postcard ONE HUNDRED YEARS too late. Let’s empathize with the person who was supposed to receive this,
Dear Cousins,
Hope this will find you all well. We are quite well but mother has awful lame knees. It is awful cold here. I just finished my history lesson and am going to bed pretty soon. My father is shaving and my mother is telling me your address. I will have to close for a night. Hope grandma and grandpa are well. Don't forget to write us - Roy get his pants fixed yet."
They’re never going to know about mother’s awful lame knees!!! What the fuck kind of justice is that?
And now to what the Post Office said happened,
A spokesperson for the Postal Service told CNN affiliate WXMI that "in most cases these incidents do not involve mail that had been lost in our network and later found. What we typically find is that old letters and postcards -- sometimes purchased at flea markets, antique shops and even online -- are re-entered into our system.
Well that sounds convenient, but who the hell just buys a postcard at a flea market and puts it in the mail. That’s terrible! That’s almost more concerning than the post office not doing, well, the post. If folks are purposely sowing chaos by resending ancient letters, then we’re all fucked regardless. I almost prefer a dysfunctional post office to a society in which these agent provocateurs roam free.
