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Postcard Delivered 90 Years Too Late
The Telegraph (UK) ^
| 2-16-2007
| Nick Britten
Posted on 02/16/2007 4:03:21 PM PST by blam
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posted on
02/16/2007 4:03:22 PM PST
by
blam
To: blam
Awesome.
Signed,
Intha Pink.
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posted on
02/16/2007 4:06:41 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: blam
Maybe this is why that UFO appeared at O'Hare a few months back?
Time travel has always been more of an art then a science and so to be off by 90 years is about as dead on as it gets.
But still, you can see why the UFO Express was abandoned shortly before it was invented.
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posted on
02/16/2007 4:07:35 PM PST
by
Duke Nukum
(Chickens are part of the natural cycle of life, and that is why we play chickenball in the house.)
To: blam
There's got to be a story there. This just didn't "appear" in a mailsack that probably wasn't made until the last ten or twenty years. Betcha somebody in the postal service found it but just quietly slipped it in the bag. Too bad - it'd sure be interesting to know where its been.
It's a nice touch he made it home and they got married. A lot of WWI stories didn't end that way.
To: blam
Ironically, the Postcard concludes: "I have received no letter from you for a long time."
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posted on
02/16/2007 4:08:18 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: blam
WOW, FRIGIN WOW!
That is amazing!!!!!!!!
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posted on
02/16/2007 4:09:15 PM PST
by
chaos_5
To: blam
That's an interesting card. Sort of covers all the bases in that informal Army way without having to think too much or know how to write. It never ceases to amaze me what the Army will come up with.
To: KellyAdmirer
It also prevents the troops from leaking info about movement etc. I don't think this sort of thing would fly in this day and age. It is an amazing glimpse into the past.
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posted on
02/16/2007 4:12:44 PM PST
by
chaos_5
To: blam
They don't teach us to write like that these days....
Wow. Beautiful handwriting.
To: blam
What it reminds us is that censorship is a necessary evil during times of war. My grandfather's letters to my grandmother always had cuts in the most innocuous places. Imagine true censorship today.
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posted on
02/16/2007 4:14:35 PM PST
by
neodad
(USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
To: KellyAdmirer
Interesting British check box form letter.
Makes it sound as if Private Butler may
have been a prisoner of war.
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posted on
02/16/2007 4:16:52 PM PST
by
Jo Nuvark
(Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
To: blam
Cool. I love these lost mail found behind a counter or machine and delivered stories.
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posted on
02/16/2007 4:18:04 PM PST
by
WorkingClassFilth
("Don't tread on me" - the motto of Patriots. "May I lick your boots?" - the motto of too many "R"s.)
To: blam
Postcard Delivered 90 Years Too Late Too late for what?
It seems to me a needless use of the word 'too'.
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posted on
02/16/2007 4:25:20 PM PST
by
Michael.SF.
(It's time our lawmakers paid more attention to their responsibilities, and less to their privileges.)
To: WorkingClassFilth
I suspect that those little blotches of what looks like machine oil on the card tell the tale on where this was all those years. Has that post office been doing any renovating recently?
To: snugs; MadIvan; Mo1; Peach; Howlin; Miss Marple; Carolinamom; ohioWfan; BigSkyFreeper; GretchenM; ..
I'm happy his daughter was alive to receive it.
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posted on
02/16/2007 4:32:45 PM PST
by
onyx
(DEFEAT Hillary Clinton, Marxist, student of Saul Alinsky & ally and beneficiary of Soros.)
To: KellyAdmirer
One item I saw in an article in a trade journal was a small, printed tag glued to a structural member inside a very, very old private residence. When remodelers opened up a wall, they found the card. The care read: Thank God you finally got here. The last people had dreadful taste.
I love messages from the past. I put them into all I build.
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posted on
02/16/2007 4:35:24 PM PST
by
WorkingClassFilth
("Don't tread on me" - the motto of Patriots. "May I lick your boots?" - the motto of too many "R"s.)
To: colorado tanker
Especially British Stories....
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posted on
02/16/2007 5:00:02 PM PST
by
RaceBannon
(Innocent until proven guilty: The Pendleton 8...back to 4...GWB, we hardly knew ye...)
To: blam
Since this was sent from the trenches of the western front it could easily been in the custody of the British Army as well. Someone cleaned out some old army storage facility and this was found.
Someone checked an old sack. The USPS no longer uses mail sacks because mail gets stuck in them. All plastic bins and boxes.
Could have fallen behind or under something in some mail processing facility.
Weren't these called "penny cards" back then?
To: blam
This guy had beautiful handwriting.
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