Postcard Arrives 50 Years Late
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish postcard bearing a lottery number arrived 50 years after being sent to a retirement home on the Baltic island of Gotland.
The card to a former employee at the Avallegarden retirement home in Klintehamn was mailed by a friend in Finspang, some 150 kms (93 miles) away on the Swedish mainland. Sent in October 1955, it arrived last month.
"Now and again a letter that has gone astray like this surfaces somewhere ... but it is very unusual," Swedish Post Office spokesman Markus Trautmann said on Monday.
The postcard included the number of a lottery ticket that the two women bought together, local paper newspaper Gotlands Allehanda reported. It was not known if they won.
The card to a former employee at the Avallegarden retirement home in Klintehamn was mailed by a friend in Finspang, some 150 kms (93 miles) away on the Swedish mainland. Sent in October 1955, it arrived last month.
"Now and again a letter that has gone astray like this surfaces somewhere ... but it is very unusual," Swedish Post Office spokesman Markus Trautmann said on Monday.
The postcard included the number of a lottery ticket that the two women bought together, local paper newspaper Gotlands Allehanda reported. It was not known if they won.
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