A card posted to Pennsylvania by a woman on holiday in New Jersey 37 years ago has just arrived. Dorothy Orth, of Seelyville in north-eastern Pennsylvania, baffled her daughter when she called on Saturday to thank her for the card.
"What card?" asked Janet Richards, of Port Jervis, New York. When her mother said it was from Asbury Park, New Jersey, she remembered.
"I sent that postcard in August 1967, when my husband and I were on our fifth wedding anniversary," she said. Ms Orth received it on July 17, almost 37 years later.
A 23 cent stamp had been stuck beside the original four cent stamp and the zip code had been added. The card was postmarked August 19 1967 at the Asbury Park post office, and July 14 2004 in Brooklyn, New York.
Credit for the belated delivery goes to Ernesto Perry, of the undelivered mail unit in Brooklyn. The postcard came to light behind a machine that was recently moved, Mr Perry said. "We always try to send back mail whenever possible."
