{"id":3273,"date":"2025-08-28T13:43:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T13:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/28\/long-lost-postcard-returned-to-sender-after-72-years\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T13:43:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T13:43:59","slug":"long-lost-postcard-returned-to-sender-after-72-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/28\/long-lost-postcard-returned-to-sender-after-72-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-lost postcard returned to sender after 72 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-08-28 13:43:57<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A postcard that went missing for over seven decades has been delivered back to its sender.<BR><br \/>\nThe card was originally mailed in 1953 by then-teenager Alan Ball to his parents, Frederic and Elizabeth, while he was away from home in Ottawa, Canada.<BR><br \/>\nSomehow, it never reached its destination and was instead discovered earlier this year by postmaster Mark Thompson in a batch of old, undelivered mail at the Ottawa Post Office.<BR><br \/>\nMark enlisting the help of local genealogists to locate Alan.<BR><br \/>\nNow, 72 years later, the postcard &#8211; which depicts the United Nations (U.N.) building in New York &#8211; has been returned to Alan, who is 89 and now lives in Sandpoint, Idaho.<BR><br \/>\nHe was shown a digital photo of the card, and Alan recognised his handwriting,<BR><br \/>\nEven though Alan does not remember mailing the card, he can recall spending time in New York whilst enroute to Puerto Rico for a summer trip in 1953.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-08-28 13:43:57 A postcard that went missing for over seven decades has been delivered back to its sender. The card was originally mailed in 1953 by then-teenager Alan Ball to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3275,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273\/revisions\/3275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}