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Post Card Sent 100 Years Ago Finally Arrived.

 
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eraserman
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/...ostcard.html

If you can not read the link above here is another one.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a.../ar-BB18WBIA
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The article correctly debunks the "story" that it took 100 years to deliver a card, but merely a case of a recent remailing. The card has now been delivered twice to the same address.
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Yet another report of the same story...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/11/us/m...d/index.html
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