Posted in Brittany, the postcard arrives at its destination 47 years later

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The story was reported by our colleagues at The Union. A postcard shipped from Brittany took more than 40 years to reach its destination.

On vacation in the summer of 1977

In August 1977a resident of Aisne is on vacation in Quiberon, in the Morbihan. To give her news, she decides to go to Plouhinec to post a postcard to his neighbors.

But the letter will take decades to travel the 600 km that separate Morbihan from Pernant, a small town located near Soissons.

Part of Morbihan, the postcard arrives at its destination 47 years later

At the beginning of the month of November 2024the recipient of the postcard was surprised to discover it in his mailbox. Forty-seven years after it was sent by their former neighbor.

A discovery reported in the daily columns: “My husband went to get the mail that day. Coming back, he said to me: Madame Doublemart is resurrected! He couldn’t believe his eyes,” confided the recipient of the letter to our colleagues at The Union.

Indeed, the lady who posted this letter is died about ten years ago. “She was almost a hundred years old. It’s a shame that she couldn’t have known that her card had arrived,” she told our colleagues.

Why did the mail take so long to arrive?

But where did the postcard go for so many years? The mail could have been lost in Morbihan.

Contacted by our colleagues from The Unionthe communications department of La Poste Hauts-de-France explains:

The card was stamped in Morbihan, so it could have been found there and then returned. It was then distributed by a postman from Aisne.

Second option, the letter was lost for many years behind a machine in a postal sorting center and found during work or storage.

“Sometimes, marginally, we can find a letter or postcard that may have fallen behind a machine between the shipping site and the reception site of the mail to be distributed,” explain the services of La Poste.

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