QUINNESEC, Mich.-a Christmas card that appears at the top of the mailbox the day before the woman turns out to be the coming end of vacation after all: 11 years overdue to be exact.
Lorraine Beauchamp says envelope postmarked in 2000 and has a 33-cent stamp, price of first class mail 11 years ago. And sender, her brother-in-law Marion Beauchamp, died in the year 2010.
“I’m afraid to open it,” Beauchamp told The Daily News in Iron Mountain. “I don’t believe it. I still can’t. It’s just the card I was that day. “
Employees at the center of sorting mail in Sydney said the card could have been trapped for years in canvas bags, or that Beauchamp was able to have looked through the old card and had one of his brother-in-law mingled with them.
Beauchamp, 85, lived in the Upper Peninsula West of Quinnesec near Wisconsin. My brother in his final live about five miles away in mountain iron. The card says, “Dear Sis”, which was followed by a Christmas message, and then signed “sincerely, Marion.”