Postcard Sent Back With 1956 Postmark

We all know how slow mail can be but this is ridiculous. A postcard sent from a home to a man in Riverside, California, was returned this week with a "return to sender" stamp � and its 1956 postmark.

The owner of the house, Mack McCormick, did not send the postcard, but he now lives where the postcard originated and received it back last week.

"The card apparently has been in the twilight zone for 50 years", McCormick said. "It's not wrinkled or anything".

A postal service spokesman said it is unlikely the postcard spent the last 50 years in a post office. The local post office has not been in the same location that long, and maintenance workers would have found it if it was trapped in a sorting machine, Breckenridge said.

Whatever the case, McCormick plans to frame the postcard.

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