Postcard Arrives 46 Years Late

The mail did go through, but it took 46 years.

A penny postcard bearing a postmark of April 7, 1951, arrived Friday at the Medford home of Jerry and Donnis Lausmann.

“I noticed it was a penny postcard first off,” said Jerry Lausmann, Medford’s mayor. “Then I noticed the date.”

The postcard was addressed to Lausmann’s late mother, Grace, who lived in the house before Lausmann bought it more than 30 years ago.

It was sent by his late aunt, Elizabeth McCrae, from Grand Forks, N.D.

Letter carrier Tom Regula said the card is older than the Medford post office, which was built in the 1960s.

“If it was lost here in Medford, it must have been inside a piece of equipment that was transferred over from the old post office,” he said.