Postcard arrives 82 years late

PORT CLINTON, Ohio, April 8 (UPI) -- An Ohio man's romantic postcard to his wife arrived at the Port Clinton Post Office a little bit later than expected -- it was sent in September 1922.

Roscoe St. Myer's postcard arrived 82 years late last week in a routine mail shipment from the U.S. Postal Service distribution center in Toledo. Postmaster Kay Tobey said she had no idea how the yellowed postcard ended up in the shipment, or where it originated from, the Port Clinton News Herald reported Thursday.

The mysterious correspondence was postmarked Sept. 14, 1922, and was mailed to Mrs. Roscoe St. Myer, Port Clinton, Ohio, on the RD3 rural postal route.

Tobey said that if Port Clinton postal employees had not taken special notice, the postcard would probably have ended up at a U.S. Postal Service mail recovery center in Atlanta, Ga., where it would have been thrown away.

Tobey said efforts to locate the St. Myer family have thus far been unsuccessful.

"I think that their family would love to have this card," Tobey said. "This is quite a keepsake for somebody."