Link:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/ODD_LOST_POSTCARD?SITE=DCTMS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Wormhole?
actually back then it was a lot cheaper. somebody owes some postage!
thnx for posting, this story will be added to this collection on abolishing the US postal service:
http://www.neoperspectives.com/post_office.htm
Well, the main thing is, he received it.
“Boston Man Receives Postcard From 1929”
The vacation is great, wish you were here,
yours
1929
who are you 1929?!!
This reminds me of a story. I was going through my wallet one day, when I came across a ticket from a dry cleaners for a suit coat I had dropped off. Unfortunately, the ticket was over nine years old. I had moved about two or three times since then, but a quick check of the phone book showed the cleaners was still in business. So I figure, what the heck, why not stop by and see happens. Anyway, I drop by the place one day and give the guy the ticket. He looks at it and then walks into the back room. Well, he comes back a couple of minutes later and says, “It’ll be ready Tuesday”.
And there are some who want to turn our healthcare over to the feds......
the postcard reads...
‘MARTY, THE FLUX CAPACITOR IS NOT WORKING
MAKE SURE TO SEND ME SOME NUCLEAR FUEL WHEN YOU GET THIS CARD IN 1957 OR I’LL DIE.”
"Greetings" really lacks feeling. Here's my punched up version of the lost postcard. :)
My Dearest Margaret,
Please excuse my writing you by postcard. As I am not yet completely settled in here, this card was all that I could find with which to make a hasty communication.
Margaret, my life here is so empty without you. I see now that I made a terrible mistake by not declaring my feelings for you before I left. I know that it might be presumptuous of me to broach the subject this way, but would you for a single minute, consider making your life with me here.
At my new job,I am making a sum that I have determined would support both of us in a pleasing fashion, so have no worries as to that matter. If you are at all amenable to this idea, please let me know immediately and I will come back to Boston and speak to your father about our plans. If in your heart you cannot see your way clear to acquiesce to my suggestion, you have no need to trouble yourself with a reply as I will take your silence as your answer.
With Respectful Admiration
Sean O'Kane