In what may have never happened before, a woman in Britain received a postcard, which was sent to her by her now dead sister-in-law ‘Dorothy Eastham’ from Egypt in 1954.
Extraordinarily, the card took 57 years to make its way from a postbox in modern-day Yemen, where her ship had made a stop to Preston, Lancashire.
Fortunately, retired florist Margaret Eastham still lives in the same house, and was able to marvel at the relic from a bygone decade.
“I really couldn’t believe my eyes,” the Daily Mail quoted the grandmother-of-seven as saying.
“My first thought was that it was from my neighbours who are in India, but then I recognised the writing as Dorothy’s, only she died four years ago.
“When I saw the date on the postmark, I was really taken back.
“It is amazing really that after all this time it still arrived. And it is in excellent condition.
“It is certainly a turn-up for the books,” she added.
Her sister-in-law Dorothy was on her way to emigrate to Malaysia, which was known as Malaya back then. She wrote and dispatched the post card from an Egyptian port city.
In the postcard, she writes about buying a bunch of roses for her cabin and wishes the family a Happy Christmas.